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Today Schuller presides over an ecclesiastical empire. In 1982 his 10,000member congregation contributed $4 million, and his TV audience mailed in $30 million, which helped support a staff of 400. His slickly made TV programs cost $8 million annually. Schuller has stopped accepting a salary, living well off his publishing income and $15,000-a-shot lecture fees...
...impoverishing the people." In Yugoslavia, President Josip Broz Tito has ordered mass arrests of people suspected of conspiring with Soviet agents to sub vert his government. The Kremlin has lately been embarrassed by the politi cal misjudgments of Portugal's aggressive Stalinist party. The huge 1,730,000member Italian party has now been joined by the 275,000-member French party in rejecting the Marxist model for Communism in their countries and in proclaiming (convincingly or not) their adherence to Western democratic principles. So troubled are relations of the foreign parties with Moscow on these and other issues that...
Issues quite apart from race now divide the two denominations. The Northern church, the 2.8-million-member United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., is three times the size of the Southern denomination, the 900,000member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Many Southerners feel that in a merger they could be swallowed up by the Northerners, who are both less conservative in doctrine and more committed to social action. The reunion plan reflects this liberalism. At their ordination, for example, Southern Presbyterian ministers would no longer be required to accept the Bible as "the infallible rule of faith and practice...
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