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...Christian conferences have so struck the hearts and imaginations of churchmen everywhere as did the Malvern Conference of the Church of England, with its bold blueprint for a just and Christian post-war society (TIME, Jan. 20). Last week Malvern came to the U. S. The Church League for Industrial Democracy, the liberal, social-action group of the Episcopal Church, met at New Haven, spent its entire annual meeting discussing the Malvern resolutions in the light of U. S. needs...
...distinguished an assembly as Malvern, which was convened by the Archbishop of York and drew 23 bishops, the C. L. I. D.'s meeting was nonetheless an earnest and effective one. Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, a C. L. I. D. member, could not come; with 20 other Bishops he was in Chicago, to consecrate the Rev. Wallace Edmonds Conkling as Chicago's seventh Episcopal bishop.* But four bishops and a raft of other prominent churchmen were there. In two days, some 450 delegates resolved that: "We subscribe to the Malvern Resolutions in spirit, also in letter...
Church Self-Reform. Malvern's plan for spiritual and financial reform of the church itself came in for plenty of discussion at the New Haven meeting. Speakers trenchantly pointed out that the lay employes of churches have not the social security of other U. S. workers, that clerical salaries are often inequitable, that church endowments and finances are not above suspicion. Due attention was paid Malvern's proposed solutions, including...
Well does the C. L. I. D. know that to many a churchman its sponsorship of Malvern would, thanks to its left-wing label, be more of a hindrance than a help. Led by its lean, kinetic executive secretary, the Rev. William Benjamin Spofford, it cheerfully voted to turn over its findings to the more official joint commission set up last October by the Episcopal General Convention and headed by liberal, well-liked Bishop William Scarlett of Missouri...
Soon to consider Malvern in one way or another are the Federal Council of Churches, the United Christian Council for Democracy (coordinating body of Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Congregational and other church social-action groups), many another U. S. church organization, and-most important of all-the conference of leading churchmen of the Western Hemisphere summoned by the World Council of Churches to meet in Toronto this June. As special guest the Toronto Conference is expecting the Archbishop of York, with his help plans to draw up a worldwide plan for post-war society. Keynote for its deliberations was struck last...