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When Chicago Bureau Chief Sam Welles got word that the TIME cover story this week would be on the Archbishop of Canterbury and the meeting of the World Council of Churches at Evanston, Ill., his first job was to locate His Grace and make arrangements for the extensive interviews that would be necessary...
...Evanston meeting was important news: the story of organized Christianity coping with a troubled world. Some 3,000 reporters applied for accreditation to the meeting. Reluctantly, the council cut the list of accredited correspondents and photographers down to 600, representing 36 countries. Warned by the flood of applications for press passes, the council was prepared to give more than casual help to reporters...
...meeting, in fact, marks the first major attempt of organized religion and the secular press to get together on a working basis. Treatment of religion as regular news is not new to TIME - but it was new to have so much company at Evanston...
...could expect salvation from the thousand-odd clerics, prelates and Christian laymen from the world's four corners who had gathered in Evanston, Ill. Yet more and more people expected help-on earth-from Christianity. Every week, in pulpits, editorials, Parliaments and Chancelleries, in universities, clinics and at cocktail parties, Christianity is invoked. Juvenile delinquency? Broken homes? Neuroses? "The answer is a sound Chris tian upbringing." High divorce rate? Alcoholism? Disintegrating ethics? "We need a firm Christian morality." Is science getting out of hand? Are art and literature aimless? "Christianity gives the only aim." Communism? "Only Christianity can defeat...
This is a tall order for a religion that, only a few decades ago, seemed to many irrelevant to "progress." Certainly the churchmen at Evanston could not try to provide earthly salvation, for that would be blasphemy; the kingdom of God must be sought for its own sake. But neither could they escape the atmosphere of urgency that surrounded their meeting. For the crescendo of ecumenical conferences of which Evanston is the climax† tells of a renewed Christian hope and a hunger for unity. These forces have brought together men and traditions that centuries of Christian history had driven...