100 years ago--The United Church of Canada is founded

For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Acts 20:29-30

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. Ephesians 5:11

Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. I John 2:18-19

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude 3-4

The modern ecumenical movement, which began with the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in June 1910, had already been underway for 15 years when, on June 10, 1925, the United Church of Canada was founded as a merger of the Methodist Church, Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, two-thirds of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the Association of Local Union Churches (a movement predominantly of the three provinces of the prairie provinces). 7,000-8,000 representatives attended the founding assembly at Mutual Street Arena in Toronto. In contrast to today, the assembly received so much newspaper coverage that it occupied the front page of the Toronto Daily Star on June 10, with articles appearing on the first seven pages of that day's edition.

M.G. Hammond reported in the June 11, 1910 edition of the Toronto Globe that the United Church had about 800,000 members in 9,000 congregations. Membership in the United Church of Canada peaked in 1964 at 1,064,000. By the end of 2023 the number of United Church congregations had dwindled to 2,451, with a total of 325,215 members--a decline in membership of approximately 70% since its peak. I don't have time to go into detail on the decline of the United Church of Canada, but it can be summed up in one word: apostasy. If you want to know about the current state of the United Church, just look at its website--especially during the month of June, when the UCC takes pride in what God calls an abomination (Leviticus 18:22).

I also recommend my previous posts on the United Church of Canada, especially the one on the 1964 Sunday School curriculum:

Calgary Herald blasts United Church of Canada for advocating a boycott of Israel (May 15, 2012)

Canadian Senators warn United Church of Canada over proposed boycott of Israeli goods (July 6, 2012)

A secular columnist accurately assesses Canada's declining liberal churches (July 30, 2012)

United Church of Canada elects its first openly sodomite moderator (August 16, 2012)

50 years ago: United Church of Canada unveils Sunday School curriculum denying the truth of the Bible (August 1, 2014)

80 years ago: United Church of Canada ordains Canada's first female minister (November 7, 2016)

Amalgamation of congregations in Edmonton provides more evidence of the continuing decline of the United Church of Canada (January 31, 2017)

30 years ago: New Ager Matthew Fox delivers keynote lecture at Queen's Theological School (October 11, 2017)

50 years ago: United Church in Calgary experiments with modern music (June 15, 2018)

Mainline church leaders 50 years ago advocated methods used by "evangelical" churches today (November 6, 2018)

Atheist minister with United Church of Canada keeps her job after an agreement in lieu of a heresy trial (November 16, 2018)

50 years ago: Canadian Anglican traditionalists oppose union with United Church of Canada (June 21, 2019)

United Church of Canada holds racially segregated mandatory workshops--for "racial justice" (May 31, 2021)

"Interfaith" service is appropriate for the retirement of United Church of Canada pastrix (July 30, 2023)

50 years ago--a couple of items related to ecumenism (April 26, 2025)