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...with Growth Stocks. British socialism is more Methodist than Marxist. Its leaders have always had fervent faith that in freedom and social justice Englishmen can build the New Jerusalem of William Blake's vision. It was Britain's hunger for a better-ordered world that swept a Labor government to power in 1945. In the wilderness since 1951, Labor has fought ceaselessly to shape the coherent contemporary philosophy that might earn its passage back to power. It did not succeed because its leaders always came up with dreary, dogmatic formulas that were remote from the everyday lives...
...many signs show that preaching alone is disappointingly ineffective. Chief among them is the segregation that still thrives within the church de spite a striking increase in sermons on integration since the January conference in Chicago. Most Southern Protestant churches are rigidly segregated, and dozens of Southern Baptist and Methodist ministers have lost their pulpits for attempting even token integration. In theory, few Northern churches are closed to Negro membership, yet because of segregated housing, most parishes have at best only limited, "back-pew" integration. "Our Sunday schools are about ten years behind the public schools in integration," complains...
...approval of U.S. Catholic bishops for a scholarly translation now being prepared for Doubleday's Anchor Books by more than 30 Catholic, Protestant and Jewish scholars under the general editorship of David Noel Freedman, a Presbyterian, of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and William F. Albright, a Methodist, of Johns Hopkins.* Jesuit Corbishley argues that Britain's still incomplete New English Bible could easily be modified for Catholic use; other Catholic scholars favor the Revised Standard Version, which is used in many Catholic seminaries. Last spring Roman Catholic Bishop Peter Bartholome of St. Cloud, Minn., gave his imprimatur...
...themselves 'O.K.' churches," she said, adding that they often bring "something that is not thereby the World Council's wishes." As it has grown, the council has created a flock of initial-rich branchlets with such titles as D.I.C.A.R.W.S.,*and Council Co-President Charles Parlin, a Methodist lawyer from New York, admits: "Instead of becoming structurally easier, the council is becoming structurally more difficult...
...crusade in Los Angeles, and the contrasts with 1949 were dizzying. This time the budget was $600,000. Teams of Graham staffers sent in ahead of time to make preparations for the crusade signed up 3,500 Southern California churches as sponsors, formed a prestigious crusade committee headed by Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy. The crowd at the Los Angeles Coliseum the first day was 38,000. During the first ten days the crusade drew 300,000 people. At least 25,000 came forward to make their decisions for Christ, including 3,216 in one night alone-a record for Graham...