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When a former Methodist churchman named J. B. Matthews made the charge that U.S. Protestant ministers "are the largest single group supporting" Communism in the U.S. (TIME, July 13), he was hit by thunderbolts of protest. They forced him to resign as executive director of Joe McCarthy's Senate subcommittee, and showed clearly that U.S. Protestants trust their clergy. But they threw little light on J. B. Matthews himself. In last week's Christian Century, Editor Paul Hutchinson, who once "knew him well and . . . liked him greatly," writes an account of him, in order to show "what strange...
...could live my life again, I don't think I should be a clergyman ... I have never been happy about the Church of England. Perhaps it will be said of me that as I grew older I became a better Christian and a worse churchman ... I do not love the human race. I have loved just a few of them. The rest are a pretty mixed...
...churchman, in those days, had a life as secure as an imperial bureaucrat. Ever since the 16th century, when Luther invoked the help of German princes to fight off the dominion of Rome, the union of Throne and Altar had been a cardinal tenet of German Protestantism. The Kaiser in Berlin was the church's "Supreme Bishop," pledged to govern his country as a Christian king...
...period of crisis. Wartime bombings had wrecked or damaged hundreds of Britain's churches. Service as chaplains or enlistments in the armed forces had called away many priests and candidates for the clergy. The church also had a grave internal problem. Archbishop Temple had been a militant Low Churchman who accentuated the Protestantism of the Anglican Communion. His predecessor, Archbishop Lang, had been an equally strong Anglo-Catholic. As a result of the strains of these sharply contrasting administrations, the historic balance between the two factions was wavering...
...Fisher stepped in to restore the balance. Temple, one of the great churchmen of modern Christianity, had driven the church toward social reform by the force of his personality. The new archbishop merged his personality into the unifying force of his office. "I am a central churchman" was his favorite reply to leading questioners, and no one ever found out much more about his personal churchmanship...