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organic unity, and the Union gave its hearty endorsement to
this plan, and put itself on record as looking forward to
the day when organic unity will be an accomplished fact.
The experience of twenty years of failure in achieving union
by means of constitutions and theories, has convinced even
those missionaries who most ardently desire union that it can
not be brought to pass by legislation, but that the right way
to achieve union is to begin to practice it by bringing many
cooperative enterprises into existence, thus leading the various
communions to discover that church union is a reality and
needs only to be named what it is. So many achievements of
this nature marked the year I922 under the able presidency
of Rev. E. K. Higdon, that the time for the denominations
to recognize this actual unity by giving themselves a common
name seemed to be approaching very rapidly.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE UNION
The various committees of the Evangelical Union are becoming increasingly active each year. The Committee on Literature has published hundreds of thousands of pages of Sunday
school and other literature. The Committee on Church Relations has made surveys of the Philippines in order to discover
what fields are being neglected. A more thoroughgoing survey
than anything that preceded it was undertaken by Rev. J. L.
Hooper in 1921 and I922, with the result that the missions
made several realignments in the territorial division. The
Congregational mission proposed that the island of Mindanao
become a mission of the Evangelical Union and that the Union
invite other communions to participate in the evangelization of
the Moros, both by sending Filipino missionaries and by contributing money. The United Brethren have already begun to
make contributions toward the Moro work in the Cotabato
valley, where several hundred of Ilocanos from the territory
assigned to the United Brethren have settled.
The Committee on Order and Morals has been the most active
of all. During the first five years of the existence of the Evangelical Union, it made a strong and effective fight against the