Word: amsterdam
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Delegates to the Western Union conference of Foreign Ministers at The Hague last week got a small practical demonstration of the need for Western Union. On the Étoile du Nord, the international luxury express which makes a daily Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam run, they had to show their passports, railroad tickets or cash 16 times to 16 different officials in the three countries. At a Dutch border town the train was held up for an hour while inspectors made sure, the passengers had not bought too many U.S. cigarettes during the 20-minute stop at Brussels...
...Amsterdam, to most people, is still merely a city in The Netherlands. But more & more Christians are now sensing that the world assembly of churches which begins there on Aug. 22 may make Amsterdam a landmark in contemporary Christian history. This week, in the first of four transatlantic broadcasts on the subject, the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, spoke to U.S. citizens on the meaning of the conference. Said...
...John A. Douglas, former secretary of the Church of England's Council on Foreign Relations, who took responsibility for withholding them for so long. He was making them public now, he explained, in view of the Lambeth conference now being held in London (TIME, July 12) and the Amsterdam conference of the World Council of Churches, which will take place in August. Said Canon Douglas...
...Amsterdam meeting had its beginnings back in 1910, when missionaries of many non-Roman Catholic churches met in Edinburgh to discuss their common problems and the possibilities of cooperation. Among them was a U.S. Episcopal bishop, the Rt. Rev. Charles Henry Brent. In the midst of the proceedings, Bishop Brent suddenly saw things in a new perspective. "I learned that something was working that was not of man in that conference,'-' he said later. "The spirit of God . . . was preparing a new era in the history of Christianity." He set to work to persuade his fellow churchmen that...
From the Vatican last month came a strongly worded warning to Roman Catholics: they must not participate in religious conferences, prayers or worship with non-Catholics, without special permission from Rome. As the Protestant world prepared for this summer's great conference of 140-odd church groups in Amsterdam,* the repercussions still rumbled...