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...Protestantism is in grave danger, according to one of its outstanding leaders, Dr. John A. Mackay (rhymes with decry). Dr. Mackay is president of Princeton Theological Seminary, president of the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., chairman of the International Missionary Council and a member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. In the current issue of Presbyterian Life, silver-thatched, 61-year-old Dr. Mackay pictures Protestantism as ringed by three dangerous enemies. The first is religious syncretism, which "denies that Jesus Christ is the truth" but "makes Him one single aspect...
...pulled M.P. Sir George Harvie-Watt off a New Zealand-bound liner, were flying him back from Gibraltar. Outside the House of Commons, hundreds watched the arrival of the invalids. Labor's Sir Stafford Cripps and Hugh Dalton were brought back from rest cures, R. W. G. Mackay from a hospital. Thomas Hubbard, awaiting an operation, turned up, pale and haggard, with two attending doctors. J. P. W. Mallalieu, who had been suffering from shingles, afterwards wrote: "Medical science is wonderful. First it was deep X rays. Then it was penicillin. Now it's divisions in the House...
...Gordon MacKay Morrison, Jr. '52 of Waban and Adams House and Roger Vaughan Pugh, Jr. '51 of Newton Lower Falls and Eliot House registered clear margins in the Student Council run-off elections held yesterday in the two Houses...
...Daily Worker played true to form. "[Churchill's] personal history," it said, "is considered [by TIME] as summing up 'the dreadful and wonderful years' . . . We can at least agree in associating the word dreadful with Mr. Churchill's story." The News Chronicle's Ian Mackay, after identifying TIME as "that atrociously written but vividly readable American magazine," said: "This is very gratifying." Here at home there was much comment in the press and on the air. Editorialized the New York Herald Tribune: "TIME . . . has provided provocation to endless dispute at bars and over bridge tables...
...conferees found nothing to feel smug about. "The imprint of Christian culture in Asia is lighter than the West assumes," said Visser 't Hooft. Said Dr. Mackay, president of Princeton Theological Seminary,' who has spent the past two months in the Far East: "There's a tremendous void in the heart of East Asia. The ancient religions are unable to explain the revolutionary changes that are taking place, or have no adequate ideas or attitudes with which to meet them...