Regional conferences in Latin America; . Samuel R. Gammon Rev. Mr. Pereira brought back to Brazil an excel-lently worded statement of the attitude of evangelicalworkers in Latin America toward the Roman CatholicChurch. It had been decided at Panama that the presen-tation of this document for official approval by the Con-gress was inadvisable, a decision in which its author andhis Brazilian colleagues had concurred. In asking forits adoption and promulgation by the regional conferencefor Brazil it was held by Sefior Pereira and others thatthe situation obtaining in the regional
Regional conferences in Latin America; . Samuel R. Gammon Rev. Mr. Pereira brought back to Brazil an excel-lently worded statement of the attitude of evangelicalworkers in Latin America toward the Roman CatholicChurch. It had been decided at Panama that the presen-tation of this document for official approval by the Con-gress was inadvisable, a decision in which its author andhis Brazilian colleagues had concurred. In asking forits adoption and promulgation by the regional conferencefor Brazil it was held by Sefior Pereira and others thatthe situation obtaining in the regional conference wasso unlike that obtaining at the general Congress atPanama, that the arguments against its promulgation atPanama did not apply to the local conference. Dr. Gam-mons resolution asked for the adoption of a positivestatement of the faith and purposes of the evangelicalmovement, a statement which could be quoted as anauthoritative deliverance of the united evangelical these resolutions were referred to the business. BACKGROUND AND SIDELIGHTS 221 committee, where they were discussed during each suc-ceeding day while the conference was sitting, the discus-sion often extending far into the night. The businesscommittee, failing to reach an agreement as to the bestcourse to pursue, finally sent both resolutions to thefloor of the conference for discussion and disposal. Inthe discussion it developed that many members of theconference regarded it as inadvisable to stamp with offi-cial approval any statement, whether one defining theattitude of the evangelical churches toward the RomanCatholic Church or a positive statement of the doctrinalposition of these churches. It was voted, however, unani-mously, that the document submitted by Sefior Pereirabe received and sent to the churches for their considera-tion. This document appears in full in the chapter deal-ing with Message and Method. With reference to the proposal by Dr. Gammon, theview prevailed that the confe
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