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...world's No. 1 Baptist Churchman traveled with pleasant English briskness through the South last week, reminding the 11,000,000 U.S. members of the church that its interests and their obligations are worldwide...
Meanwhile many a U.S. churchman also keeps an anxious eye on Washington. Five times in the last year the District of Columbia, holding that "religious institutions enjoy no inherent exemption from taxation," has returned church property to the tax rolls. Last week Monsignor Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference (voice of the Roman Catholic hierarchy), put ecclesiastical fears into words: "What the District of Columbia' now provides in its tax laws will be precedent-setting all over the country...
Most practical prayer of the week appeared in the Southern Churchman (Episcopal...
...without which victory cannot be won by the United Nations. It was easier to say what that faith was not. It was not a byproduct of social reorganization, nor could it spring from any political and economic program. Where it would spring from no one seemed to know. One churchman suggested a key to the riddle might lie in the words of Isaiah...
Bennet is a political unknown even in the district, though his father served eight years in Congress. But he has a sound political background. He is president of the Newburgh Y.M.C.A., a churchman, a onetime president of the local Chamber of Commerce, a Son of the American Revolution. Last week he got Dewey's backing. He also has the backing of many independent Republicans. What he did not have and would not get was the support of the ancient, cast-iron Republican machine which dominates the district. The district GOPoliticos, backing Fish again, were set to crush any upstart...