Community Church

Excerpt from A Community Church: The Story of a Minister's Experience, Which Led Him From the Church, Militant to the Church Democratic At one of the forum meetings of a community center conducted in a public school building of Rochester, New York, there occurred a few years ago a dramatic incident which embodied a significant challenge to all thoughtful and patriotic citizens. During the progress of the address and the discussion which followed it, a young man sat in the rear of the auditorium, apparently indifferent to all that was going on and lost in his own thoughts. Near the dose of the meeting he arose, as if aroused from a dream, with living fire in his eyes and his face illumined by a sudden inspiration. The following in substance is what he said: "Mr. Chairman, I do not know the subject under consideration, but I request the privilege of announcing a discovery I have made tonight concerning the community center movement of which this forum is a part." His request was granted, and he continued: "I am a Russian immigrant and have been in this country for ten years. Before I left my native land, I inquired of my friends concerning the kind of national church existing in America. They all answered, 'America has no national church.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.