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...operation like an airlift, shuttling planeloads of men and equipment to an airhead on a commuter-train timetable. Airborne officers insist that the intricate job of establishing an airhead in enemy territory requires newer techniques-which must still be developed. Their candidate for the command: Major General Robert W. Douglass, former chief of staff of Air Forces in Europe...
...that looked like a leopard) was sighted in some bushes by a plane. An hour later it was spotted by a motorist in an open field. Though one hunting party put the torch to 40 acres of brush, the big cat remained at large. That night, one M. D. Douglass swore he saw the fugitive sneaking back into the zoo; attendants hung chunks of drugged meat on nearby fences, but the varmint went unseen and uncaught...
Today, according to Dr. Douglass, there are "more than 700 new communities in the United States-all of them towns with at least 2,500 population-which do not have a single church . . . In the midst of a highly mobile population, a church which is immobilized by denominational divisions just doesn't make sense...
...Protestantism's excessive fragmentation, says Dr. Douglass, is also responsible for a crisis in the theological seminaries. "So long as most of the 250 Protestant denominations try to train their own ministers, the quality of the training must suffer ... Even more serious is the fact that many young ministers are discouraged by the whole pattern of Protestant disunity. They are disheartened at the prospect of starting their life work in a community of competing churches-where there are not enough members of their own denomination to give them a man-sized...
Unity has already been proved possible, Dr. Douglass points out. "In 1925, the United Church of Canada was formed. Joining in this mutual effort were the Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and the Local Union of Churches in Western Canada. The United Church of South India was formed, bringing together Episcopalians, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and members of the Reformed Church...