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...yellow pad on which he listed all the problems that he should be worrying about-"as many as 70 to 80 worries at a time," a friend recalls. Some of the worries went away, some were solved, some blossomed into full-scale crises. But the sum total verified his creed that forethought should be a foundation stone of U.S. foreign policy. In a complex and changing world, he argues, it is not enough to think about problems and challenges as they arise. "We are going to have to aim at the future," he says, "if we expect to come...
...Emperor Constantine. disturbed because the Arian heresy had started a squabble among his bishops that threatened the internal and external security of the Roman world, summoned the Council of Nicaea, banged episcopal heads together until the bishops agreed on the Nicene Creed, a concise statement of belief that runs in the Latin version to only 162 words, yet managed to postpone religious schism for 700 years...
...Nikita Khrushchev convened in Moscow an ecumenical council of the Communist hierarchs of 81 nations to deal with the threat of schism raised by efforts of the brash Peking Communist school to put itself forward as the true exemplar of Communist faith and practice. Last week the resulting creed finally was published in Moscow and in Communist papers around the world...
...million, divided into six districts, governed by bishops who are elected by jurisdictional conferences. Founded in the 18th century in reaction to the Church of England, Methodism stresses personal religious experience and love of God rather than doctrine, though Methodists believe in the Trinity, recite the Apostles' Creed, and observe the sacraments of baptism and communion. But they regard communion as only commemorative of the Last Supper...
Johnson, in a meandering, crowd-rousing talk, told the people how the Democratic party was the party of "all the people," how the Democrats were going to insure that "all Americans will enjoy the blessings of liberty--regardless of race, creed or color," how three Massachusetts boys had died at the Alamo, how no one had asked Captain Joe Kennedy and Wilfred Wylie from Fort Worth what church they attended when they went out to die "so that all of us could be free," and what a pleasure it was "to stand beside, to stand with, to stand behind, that...