Word: 178th
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...first time in its history, a layman has become chief executive officer in the 3,300,000-member United Presbyterian Church. At the Presbyterians' 178th General Assembly in Boston last week, delegates elected Wichita Lawyer William Phelps Thompson, 47, as their new Stated Clerk over two other candidates, both ministers. Thompson, who for the past year has held the largely ceremonial office of moderator, succeeds the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, the new General Secretary of the World Council of Churches...
...church about stands to be taken on contemporary social issues. Tentatively, the delegates also agreed to supplement the classic Westminster Confession of 1647 with a modern statement of faith similar in purpose to the Confession of 1967 that will be considered by the "Northern" United Presbyterians at their 178th General Assembly later this month...