Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twofold Tragedy. Until now, many of the faithful members of the Progressive Party have rationalized Wallace's position on Communism and their own embarrassing fellowship with the Communists in the same way that Wallace has rationalized it. There have been signs of restlessness, however. Sooner or later the look of the Third Party's real bosses may repel the sincere non-Communists who are the backbone of the party's voting strength. The bosses may become so obvious that even the blindest Wallaceite will recognize them. Then Wallace will appear to them in the most ignoble role...
...Francisco. There was no assurance that the colored people would take to the idea, or that white San Franciscans would approve. The pay would be negligible. Before long, Thurman had left Howard, where he had been twelve years, and was on his way to the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples...
...Strangest Thing . . ." In San Francisco last week some 250 men & women crowded into Fellowship Church's rented meeting hall. Half were white, more than a third were Negro, the rest Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos. Their religious backgrounds were also multicolored: Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Jews, Episcopalians and many who claimed no church at all. The service last week was divided into two parts-half an hour of meditation, then 40 minutes of preaching and hymns...
During its first two years, Fellowship Church was sustained by an annual grant of $3,600 from the Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church (Northern). Now one-third of its $19,000 yearly budget is contributed by the congregation, the rest by friends and 185 "national associates" (who include such kindly lights as Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Harper Sibley, president of the United Council of Church Women). In addition to his white Co-Pastor Robert Meyners, Thurman is assisted by a Nisei Methodist who preaches once a month...
Last winter, Thurman feels, the experiment really came of age. With some misgivings he had gone to serve as visiting lecturer in philosophy and religion at the University of Iowa. When he returned he found that the congregation had stopped calling it "Fellowship Church" or "the church" and had begun to call it "our church." Says he: "Now comes the temptation to say, 'We have a very nice atmosphere here-let's freeze...