Popular Presbyterians

"Let each & every Protestant denomination unite at once with one other Protestant denomination."

Should a U. S. Dictator issue such a decree, Presbyterians would find themselves overwhelmed by proposals. Methodist Episcopalians would leap to join them. So, only a little less eagerly, would Congregationalists, Lutherans, Protestant Episcopalians, Friends (Quakers). The Presbyterians would take the Methodists.

No doubt have seven major denominational groups about whom they would least like to join. Unitarians win hands down, with Friends a unanimous but distant second. Most unpopular Unitarians would have nothing but woe. Unpopular Friends, whom they like best, like them least.

Such was the set-up disclosed last week by Dr. Harlan Paul Douglass of Manhattan's Institute of Social and Religious Research in Church Unity Movements in the U. S., a 576-page report on four years of questionnairing the Protestant rank & file about church union. Prime finding of the survey was that, of 16,355 persons who filled in a ballot on union, two thirds voted aye.

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