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...Formula. At the center of it all-the 577 delegates and 200 staffers, 65 observers and 275 reporters, plus assorted wives and special guests-a stern, craggy Dutchman loomed over the Assembly like an orchestra conductor on a podium. Willem Visser 't Hooft is the prime professional of the international ecumenical movement, in which he has spent his entire working life, and the New Delhi Assembly is the crowning of his career, for he plans to retire some time before the next one-probably in Africa six years hence...
...Hotel Janpath at 8-"If my staff people have any problems, they can find me there." Three-quarters of an hour later, he was in his office to begin a day's work that combined the functions of guru, watchdog, troubleshooter, father confessor and cheerleader. Visser 't Hooft is especially pleased with the smooth sailing of the Russian Orthodox into the World Council; increasing the Orthodox representation was his longstanding concern...
...line ecumenists were swallowing hard at the prospect, and the political activists were far from happy about what the Russian Orthodox delegates might do to some of their pet resolutions. Visser 't Hooft fully understands their position: "I know that to bring in the Russian church is to bring in new problems. It will be more difficult to take those positions on international questions which we have taken in the past. We believe, however, that we simply have to accept that difficulty and seek to overcome...
...delegates, observers, staff members and special guests (plus 275 newsmen) met in a world unused to organized religion. A memorandum prepared by General Secretary Visser 't Hooft and Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the Church of South India reminded them that the mysterious East was accustomed to a different brand of holy man. "To go to the capital city of India and proclaim that Jesus Christ is the light of the world is a daring action," the memo noted. "It is difficult for most people in India to take seriously a claim to religious insight which is not accompanied...
...Ecumenical Mobilization. Here, in the 1,081-capacity main auditorium, the Council's leaders and delegates-plus a team of five official observers sent by the Vatican-watched what Visser 't Hooft called the "ecumenical mobilization" click along like clockwork. With a simple show of hands at its first day's meeting, the Assembly voted to merge with the International Missionary Council...