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Some 3,000 Christians crowded into the church, the chapel and two halls of the First Methodist Church in Evanston, Ill. this week for a service the like of which the world has never seen before. In the processional marched 700 priests and patriarchs, bishops and archbishops, ministers and laymen. The Rev. Dr. Marc Boegner of France read the First Lesson (Isaiah 53) in French. Archbishop Athenagoras, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, read the Second Lesson (Philippians 2:1-11) in Greek. Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Norway led the recitation of the Apostles' Creed in German...
Convened this week: the second Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Evanston...
...good week to look for some answers. Hundreds of Chris tian churchmen from all over the world were meeting in half a dozen U.S. cities to discuss the condition of their faith (see below). The World Council of Churches was preparing for next week's big meeting at Evanston, Ill., whose theme is "Christ the Hope of the World...
After reading your July 19 article on the controversy over Cardinal Stritch's remarks [Roman Catholics should not participate, even as observers, in the forthcoming Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Evanston, Ill.], I wondered, as I always do when I read about religious disputes, if the men of God aren't forgetting that their job is to teach men the good life, and not jockey for position in some clerical Executive Suite. Gentlemen, let's not argue about who has got a seat closer to God, but how to live more nearly according...
...State Department announced that it had granted visas to eleven churchmen from behind the Iron Curtain-Czechoslovakia and Hungary-to attend the second Assembly of the World Council of Churches Aug. 15-31 in Evanston, Ill. To Michigan's Republican Representative Alvin M. Bentley (now recovered from the shooting by Puerto Rican terrorists, TIME, March 8), the admission of "these servants of world Communism" seemed "naive"-and headline-worthy as well. He announced that the House subcommittee to investigate the communization of Russia's European satellites would begin hearings during the Evanston conference. Said Congregationalist Bentley: "I will...