Word: counciling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McIntire would like to see his American Council taken seriously as the formal opposition to the Federal Council of Churches. His main charges against the Federal Council: 1) identifying Christianity with social reforms; 2) failing to accept every word of the Bible as literally true; 3) trying to make some sort of a deal with the Roman Catholic Church ("a system which enslaves and destroys the souls of mortal...
Unchristian Idea. McIntire seldom misses an opportunity to embarrass and harass his opponent. A few days before the Assembly of the World Council of Churches met at Amsterdam last August, McIntire was in Amsterdam holding his own meeting of the "International Council of Christian Churches." Whenever he could get startled reporters to listen, he fulminated that the leaders of the World Council "include radical pacifists and socialists . . . This assembly is going to serve Communist ends." On such occasions, the American Council's impressive-sounding name often wins attention...
...American Council's spring convention in Denver last fortnight, the 30 delegates passed resolutions opposing, among other things, "Brotherhood Week" and federal aid to education. The brotherhood of man, McIntire has said, is an unchristian idea. "Jesus Christ repudiated the popular doctrine that is on the lips of thousands of preachers today-the universal Fatherhood of God. There is no such doctrine taught in the Bible. Neither does its corollary, the brotherhood of man, exist in the Bible...
Into President Truman's offices one day last week went his three-man Council of Economic Advisers, to give him their report on the U.S. economy. Tall, gaunt old Chairman Edwin G. Nourse adjusted his pince-nez, cleared his throat, and informed the President that the U.S. was still in "a healthy state of disinflation." It had not "fallen...
Radcliffe Student Council executive board approved the 'Cliffe Young Progressives' constitution and financial reports at its last meeting. Individual Council members will now be asked to vote for restoration of the YP's charter...