Current Events and Discussions

Protestant Fellowship in Europe.-Dr. Charles S. MacFarland, the general secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, has published a very interesting report of his recent visit to Europe on behalf of the Protestant churches of America. Of particular interest is the so-called Bethesda Conference of European Churches which met in Copenhagen in August. Seventy-five delegates, representing thirty-seven church bodies in twenty-one European nations, were present. The state churches in the several Protestant nations, as well as the denominations known as sects, such as Methodists and Baptists, met in democratic form in this conference to consider the common interests of Protestant Christendom. In view of the intensity of the distrust which has prevailed between Protestant bodies in Europe, this conference marks the beginning of a new united consciousness. The encouragement and influence of American Protestantism is especially necessary just now when so many Protestant bodies in Europe are facing extremely difficult tasks of rebuilding their material and spiritual interests after the war.