PROTESTANT CHURCHES' SLOW PROGRESS

7 Protestant Churchesj Make Slow Progress 1 Toward Unification By Associated Press CINCINNATI Jan 25How far have seven Protestant church groups advanced toward a long sought union. That question still will bring a variety of answers after a two day meeting here of the National Conference on Church Union. On the face of it it would ap pear that the move toward a union of those seven groups is no farther along than it was when the meeting started here. The representatives of those groups had only a plan of union before them when they convened Vote to Send Plan Back Yesterday they voted to send that plan right back to their ex ecutive and drafting committee and have it all done over again.

Most of the observers said that the suggestions and proposals made here were necessary in or der to bring forth a merger plan that would meet with the even tual approval of all seven de nominationsand perhaps two or three others. The seven groups most directly concerned with the merger pro posed in the meeting here are the Presbyterians of the U S A the Presbyterians of the United States the Methodists Evangelical and Reformed Disciples.