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Founded in 1957, the Ecumenical Institute now operates out of a former Church of the Brethren seminary on Chicago's West Side. It has a resident community of 185-105 adults, the rest children and teen-agers-who live together in apartment buildings belonging to the institute. Each couple is given two rooms, plus another room for every two children. The core of the institute is its 20 "permanent members," mostly Protestant clergymen, who have banded together into a corporate ministry. The rest of the community consists of "interns," who spend a year at the institute, and "fellows...
Firth emphasized that the war is a moral issue. He summed up his argument with an excerpt from The Gospel According To St. Matthew: "Whatsoever [harms] the least of my brethren [harms...
...trail of human dignity." Replying in kind, Vice President Hubert Humphrey likened Johnson to Franklin Roosevelt, House Speaker John McCormack toasted him as "a man bigger than life," and Chief Justice Earl Warren psalmed the joys of fellowship. "Behold," proclaimed Republican Warren, "how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell in unity...
...Harvard CO's are members of religious sects traditionally opposed to war--Quakers, Mennonites. Jehovah's Witnesses, Brethren, and Seventh Day Adventists, for example. Few, if any, base their conscientious objection on any orthodox creed. Few, if any, have an orthodox conception of God. These are by no means insuperable drawbacks. However the selective service system's attitude toward unorthodox CO claims is probably best characterized as highly suspicious. Harvard CO's must make up for their lack of orthodoxy with the clarity, consistency, and sincerity of their thoughts. And that's where the struggle begins...
...know, has questioned Mr. Bond's right to speak, only what he has spoken, which no one seems to want to print. You, like most of your brethren, have failed to grasp the motivation behind the "hostile sentiment of the legislature...