Religion: Presbyterian Tenet

Last week, the Roman Catholics, who seldom have anything to say on Prohibition.— made clear their position on Birth Control. Simultaneously Presbyterians, who do not make Birth Control an issue, issued a statement on Prohibition which is virtually a Presbyterian tenet. At Philadelphia, the administration committee of the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. met in executive session and re-dedicated itself “to a program of education which will make America the most temperate and the most law-observing nation in the world.” Copies of this statement, prepared by their moderator, Pittsburgh’s Hugh Thompson Kerr, will be sent to every Presbyterian church in the U. S.

—When Prohibition was young, the late Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore and Cardinal O’Connell of Boston expressed their disapproval.