Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things were looking up last week for West Point's 90 dismissed cadets. Following Cardinal Spellman's lead (TIME, Aug. 27), offering them sanctuary in three New York Catholic colleges, other colleges extended the hand of fellowship. The warmest welcome came from the Point's old football enemy Notre Dame, where an "anonymous benefactor" announced that he was ready to pay the way of any or all of them through college-provided that "they meet Notre Dame's standards . . . that they need such help, and that these young men will not participate in any form...
Agape's veteran worker Gianni Cassetti handed the keys to the Rev. Robert Tobias, Kansas-born staff member of the World Council of Churches. Then a prayer was read (in six languages): "We this day do set apart this village to the service of God, in the fellowship of the Universal Church, to be a temple of that love which is revealed by the Cross of Christ, to be a meeting place for men to be reconciled...
...Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and to students at Union Theological Seminary, he gave the same message: "The thing wrong with religion today the world over, and especially in America, is that it is too centrally heated, too cozy and comfortable." His remedy: less social psychology and good fellowship, more emphasis on an austere gospel of sacrifice. Said Macdonald...
This spiritual courage can only be evoked by a strong spiritual message. Although Macdonald greatly admires the informal relations which often exist between U.S. ministers and their congregations ("Perhaps we in Britain are more formal"), he doubts that good fellowship and social consciousness can be substituted for active Christianity...
...fellowship was established by the widow of the wartime Secretary of the Navy...