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Voice of Conscience. A few protests came from the tiny group of Progressive Party members of Parliament, but the loudest voice of opposition came from churchmen. From Swaziland, where he had fled to avoid arrest by Verwoerd's police, Ambrose Reeves, Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, published an Easter message: "As Christians, we dare not pretend that we have no responsibility for all that is happening in South Africa ... To do that would make us absentees from history." Militant Joost de Blank, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, aimed his attack at the Dutch Reformed Church, which provides the philosophic base...
Teacher John Vernon, 30, of St. Stephen's (Anglican) school in Burnley, England, is known for giving his ten-year-olds prickly essay themes. Recently, Vernon told the youngsters that Britain's new early warning radar system would beep just four minutes before the inbound swoosh of a nuclear missile. "Would there be any way of escape?" asked one little girl. "None," Vernon replied firmly as he announced the essay assignment for the day: Describe "My Last Four Minutes...
Says Bishop Stephen Bayne, the Archbishop of Canterbury's executive officer in the Anglican Communion: "The word missionary may have outlived its usefulness. It suggests a false picture of the secure, settled, stable church at home playing a Lady Bountiful role among the underprivileged, primitive people of the world. The younger churches have gifts to give -ideas, new improvisations, experimental techniques, fresh grasps of timeless moral problems...
...growing emphasis on native churches also presents crucial problems. Anglican Bishop Stephen Neill predicts that within 50 years, despite present Moslem inroads, all of tropical Africa may be Christian, but he also warns that the native churches are far from ready to deal with such an influx of new Christians...
...chosen, Philip Evergood could have lived a perfectly respectable life. His father, an artist named Blashki, was an Australian Jew of Polish descent who emigrated to the US but his mother was a member of a well-to-do Anglican family who was determined to have a son educated in her native England. son educated in her native England. When Philip failed to get past the Committee of Admirals for entrance into for entrance into the Naval Trainging College at Osborner, his father fired an angry letter to First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, demanding to know whether...