Word: amsterdam
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...sleuth." For 15 years (partly financed by a Rockefeller fellowship) he has been investigating the state of Protestantism in the U.S. Published this week is the result: an autobiographical Report to Protestants (Bobbs-Merrill, $3), which is well-timed for this month's big conference of churches at Amsterdam...
...church leaders at Amsterdam, warns Marcus Bach, must remember the individual Protestant worshiper and his spiritual needs: "I had traveled 15 years only to agree that the personal religious life must come first in any Protestant plan . . . If the leaders of the World Assembly failed to challenge the individual . . . they would declare unity with their lips but retain plurality in their mission...
...churches which will be represented at Amsterdam is to be seen a gathering together of Christian leaders on a greater scale than the world has yet seen . . . But the abiding significance of Amsterdam lies in this; that it is to inaugurate a Council of Churches which, please God, will continue, and will continuously draw together into fuller understanding and cooperation the divided groupings of the servants of Christ in the world...
...Amsterdam is a great opportunity: I join you in praying God that we may use it to the full, and that through it God will help the churches to find their unity and the world its peace...
Among other Christian bodies, the Russian Orthodox Church had been invited to Amsterdam. Would the Russians come? From Moscow last week, where bearded Orthodox Church dignitaries ended a series of meetings, meals and motorcades celebrating their church's sooth anniversary, the answer came: no. Amsterdam, said the voice of Moscow, was "mainly political and anti-democratic...