Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...trickled into the nets. The Red Wings bitterly protested that Richard had illegally slapped the puck -to no avail. By a score of 3-2, the Canadiens had won the Stanley Cup for the 13th time and the second year in a row. His chest pains long forgotten, Coach Blake surveyed the huge silver trophy. "Take it to the train," he ordered, "and fill it with champagne...
...years since the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake first proposed the creation of a giant Protestant superchurch, participants in the annual Consultation on Church Union have spent their time sparring over preliminary issues. Last week in Dallas came what Episcopal Bishop Robert Gibson of Virginia called "a crucial moment": delegates from the eight churches in the C.O.C.U.* agreed on a set of principles for the merger, clearing the way for preparation of a formal union plan...
...think we have come out of this meeting with more strength than we intended when we went into it," said Bishop Gibson. In fact, plenty of obstacles remain before Blake's ecumenical dream becomes a reality. Although the delegates in Dallas were committed to merger, many privately wondered whether their churches were willing to make the surrender of power and principle that the union will demand. "The man in the street is for church union and motherhood," said President Ben Herbster of the United Church of Christ, "but when union means giving up St. John's down there...
...Blake's original proposal, made at Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike's Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, was for a union of his own United Presbyterians, the Methodists, the Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ. Since then, the Disciples of Christ, the Evangelical United Brethren, the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Southern Presbyterians have become full partners in the Consultation...