Excerpt from The Faith of a Modern Christian

The Theological Seventeen is a group of pastors of different denominations bound together into a fellowship. It has never become a highly organized club with rules, by-laws and red tape. It has always possessed an intangible and vital quality of spirit rather than of form.

From the beginning it has attracted men of a definite quality and of a distinctive faith. Its members have been men of religious conviction, dominated and controlled by Christian principles and ideals, who have consecrated their lives to the Christian ministry. These men have, also, won through to a definite interpretation of the supreme realities of life - they have believed in the progressive nature of revelation and in the social feature of redemption. They have felt that science is not in conflict with religion, and they have become convinced that religion has a social as well as an individual message.

Since the outset the meetings of this fellowship have combined social and instructional features. There have always been moments of relaxation, of play and laughter, of friendliness finding new treasures of companionship. At the meetings, papers have been read on topics educational, economic, or theological, and a free and friendly discussion has followed. In this simple manner the members have experienced a ripening of friendship and a deepening of faith.

The fellowship has always had beside its qualitative test for membership, a maximum limit to its membership. And in these two elements is found the secret of its name.

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