Religion: The Ecumenical Era

Baltimore’s big (1,200 membership), Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church announced that it had selected a co-pastor who was not a Methodist and did not expect him to change from his present denomination, Disciples of Christ.

Said Methodist Pastor Albert E. Day in announcing the appointment of the Rev. Walter Fiscus of Eugene, Ore. as his co-pastor: “In these days when there is so much discussion of church union, there are steps in fellowship that may well be taken by individual churches, advances that may open larger ways of cooperation between representatives of various denominations before organic unity between denominations is reached . . . This is definitely the era of the ecumenical spirit . . . Why should the church ask for international cooperation and refuse interdenominational cooperation?”