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Having just returned from the Lund Conference of the World Council's Commission on Faith and Order, I read with a certain surprise the report in your Sept. 1 issue...
...does it work in Czechoslovakia? The Christian Century interviewed Dr. Hromadka during the international Protestant conferences at Lund, Sweden (TIME, Sept. 1), last week reported, in third-person paraphrase, Hromadka's answers to the question, as checked and approved by Hromadka himself. Excerpts...
When theologians get together, nothing happens. Nevertheless, they get together occasionally. Last week 250 of them-representing 40 countries and virtually every Christian church but the Roman Catholic-met in the Swedish university town of Lund. They called their meeting the third World Conference on Faith and Order. The purpose: "To seek for the oneness of truth in Christ," i.e., to see whether there is any way of ironing out obstacles to real church union...
...first day, most of them went to Lund's 12th century cathedral for a joint Communion service. Then the delegates went into committee sessions to examine the premises of one another's faiths. At week's end, most of them had at least agreed on what they disagreed about. But each faction was as sure as ever that the best way to agree was for the other fellows to stop disagreeing...
...from Manhattan by air for Bombay. For the next two months they will visit universities and live in student hostels at Poona, Madras, Mysore and Travancore. There they will explain U.S. democracy to their Indian colleagues. "Some of us will soon have to do military service," said Mormon David Lund, 21 (who won $120 on a radio quiz show to help finance his trip). "It struck us that here we are ready to go to Korea and fight, but that right now we're not doing anything for our country ... I can face dying for my country...