Pusey Hails Increased Interest in Religion, Growing Unity of Church

An increasing interest in religion has come to the world in the post-war decade and with it a growing desire 'among Christians to come together, President Pusey told more than 5000 Protestant laymen at a five-denominational communion and breakfast in Boston on Sunday.

Speaking to the largest turnout in the five-year history of the breakfast, Pusey asserted that the gathering was "further evidence of a strong desire for separate Christian churches to come together."

"The freshening interest in religion is not wishful thinking," he said, "but manifest fact, for the churches are filling up again, there is widespread new discussion of religion, religious books are selling as they have not sold for decades, and most hopefully, within this new movement is burgeoning a strong desire to come together."

"Unconvincing Picture"

Protestant groups have been quarreling and differing among themselves far too long, he declared, and "we have presented a devastatingly unconvincing picture to the rest of the world. Enjoined by the Lord, through the manner of our lives, to show the reality of an engaging household open to all men everywhere upon belief through God's free gift of His Son, we have too often lived a ridiculous caricature of such reality."