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World Council membership in the past was based on belief in Jesus Christ as God and Saviour; the Central Committee added the Trinity. Its full text: "The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour according to the Scriptures and therefore seek to fulfil together their common calling, to the glory of the one God. Father, Son and Holy Spirit...
...Freely Confess." Republicans got in the first telling thrust. After huddling with Nixon, Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen proposed a bill to restore what Ike's message had called the "two major deletions" in the civil rights bill that Congress passed last April: extra federal money for states, localities and school districts working toward desegregation, and a permanent commission to combat discrimination in hiring by Government contractors. When Democrats accusingly pointed out that Dirksen had voted against both proposals last spring, he oracularly confided: "I freely confess my sins of omission and commission...
...gives me much professional and personal pleasure to welcome TIME'S new publisher, Bernhard M. Auer, to these columns. But I must confess that after nearly 15 years of discourse with TIME'S readers in this space, I turn it over to my successor with some regret...
...them with the Christians and Jews as worthy of special consideration. And they have survived the bloody centuries partly because of their exclusive faith and their horror of conflict, partly by going underground. "If persecuted," instructs a Mandaean text, "say, 'We belong to you.' But do not confess him in your hearts, or deny the voice of your Master, the high King of Light." The Christian Demons. Together with the King of Light, the Mandaeans worship the Great Life, which takes the form of the "living water" or yardna-water flowing in a natural stream. As John baptized...
...finished preaching that night, the lamb was brought in and wired to the cross. Then the lights were turned out, a man of the congregation slit the lamb's throat, and the lights were turned on again. About 40 people came forward "to rededicate themselves and to confess Christ...