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...which 214 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox bodies belong. Meeting at their new headquarters in Geneva, members of the World Council's central committee chose the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake (TIME cover, May 26, 1961), stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, to succeed Willem Visser 't Hooft, council chief since it was founded...
...Visser 't Hooft we lose a God-given architect," one council staffer commented, "and in Blake we get an energetic manager." Blake's acceptance speech suggested that he will apply his energy -he seems bountifully springy at 59 -toward keeping the council strong and influential. "I believe the World Council of Churches can continue to grow in usefulness in the coming years," he said. "But I know, too, that it can be passed...
Organization Man. A onetime Prince ton football letterman, St. Louis-born Gene Blake takes pride in being "an organization man" who sees administrative detail not as housekeeping but as a means of achieving the church's mission. Though he lacks Visser 't Hooft's skill in languages, Blake seems strongly qualified for the job: he was a mission ary teacher in India, spent 19 years as a preacher and pastor, served a term (1954-57) as president of the National Council of Churches. In U.S. ecumenical circles, he is famed as author of the "Blake proposal...
Syncretistic Trends. Since World Council General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft was happily off on a vacation, there was no danger in Geneva of an embarrassing confrontation, although one World Council official noted that the L.C.C.C. is "just a group of hecklers that keeps following us around, collecting minute splinter groups of no real significance...
...Visser 't Hooft, D.D., general secretary of the World Council of Churches...