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Ugly Sound. President Johnson last week sounded a similar warning. "We have entered a new phase," he told visiting bishops from the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has an all-Negro membership of 1,300,000. "What if the cry for freedom becomes a sound of a brick cracking through a store window, turning over an automobile in the street or the sound of the mob? If that sound should drown out the voices of reason, frustration will replace progress and all of our best work will be undone...
Sister Angelica may well be the first U.S. clerical figure to suffer physical injury from her coreligionists in the service of civil rights, but as one Methodist minister from Los Angeles puts it, "there are subtler kinds of stoning." To day, as the Negroes' just claim to equality has become all but submerged in the demand for black power, an increasing number of Christian laymen are turning cool toward unqualified stands for civil rights by their ministers and priests. Even congregations that applauded when their clergy marched off last year to Selma have sometimes turned deaf and hostile ears...
Hangman's Noose. Opposition to clerical involvement takes many forms -some of them crude. When Methodist Pastor Eugene Lowry of Kansas City's College Heights Methodist Church urged his congregation to hire a Negro organist, his car was burned and he found a hangman's noose on his mail box. More frequently, though, opposition takes a financial form. Outspoken preachers on civil rights have seen their collection-plate income drop as much as 50% after a sermon on integration; last month All Souls Church in Washington, D.C., drastically cut its annual contribution to the city...
...local civil rights work. And in Evanston, Ill., the Rev. Emory G. Davis this month left his church, after being repeatedly urged by parishioners to stick to the work of the parish and leave civil rights to God. Ironically, Davis and the 400 parishioners of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church are Negroes...
...spartan, British-trained officer who neither smokes nor drinks (his hobby is bird watching), Gowon, although a Northerner, is not a member of the region's dominant Hausa and Fulani tribes. Nor is he a Moslem; his father, a member of the smaller Birom tribe, is a Methodist missionary. But his task is not easy...