Proposed Union Fails.—The proposed union between the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (i.e., the Northern Presbyterian Church) and the United Presbyterian has failed. The “liberals” in the Presbyterian Church were keen for this union and at last Assembly, by a large majority, carried for union but at the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church the union movement received its death blow and a motion discharging the Union Committee was carried. The Union says Christianity To-day (Philadelphia, U.S.A.) “would not have been for the best interest of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. because it would have been obtained at the cost of a serious lowering of its doctrinal standards and under conditions that would have made further revision in the direction of Modernism relatively easy.” Not only has there been a serious drift in the Presbyterian Church but the United Presbyterian Church has also been heading in the wrong direction. It was not so many years ago the largest Presbyterian Church which used the Psalms only in the praises of the sanctuary. It is symptomatic of the times that most of these union movements are not making for a more rigid adherence to scriptural creeds but to a looser interpretation of them.