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Congress is expected to pass the draft extensions, but it may be hard to sell the House, always hostile to U.M.T. in the past, on the full reserve program. The Board of World Peace of the Methodist Church has already asked 9,000,000 Methodists to oppose "any system by whatever name" that resembles U.M.T. Congressmen can also be expected to ask the cost of teaching thousands of young men the mere fundamentals of military drill and life in view of a still heavy military budget (see above). Most biting comments are likely to come from those who find...
Anchor man of the conference is Missouri's Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee Holt, 69, head of a commission that has been working for more than five years on a plan for organic unity of the nine conference denominations. Last week Bishop Holt gave the press an "unofficial" look at the plan...
Bishop Holt's current job is to get the plan into the hands of influential members of the participating denominations with hope of a "convocation" to consider it one year from now. But greying Methodist Holt, who has been "plugging and praying" for organic unity since 1910, is far from overoptimistic about the chances of early success. "Union is bound to come," he said last week. "It is tragic that so many fail...
...Knight's views as "the stock in trade of atheists and agnostics for at least two centuries," and the Bishop of Coventry rounded on both BBC ("irresponsible") and Mrs. Knight (a "pernicious performance" by a "brusque, so-competent, bossy female"). The Rev. Dr. Donald Soper, fire-eating Methodist leader, went to her defense. "The alternative to such discussion is to mollycoddle religion . . . As Christians we should welcome the opportunity for examination of the fundamentals of our faith...
...Eisenhower to release surplus food to China to relieve this famine. Many outstanding religious leaders in this nation support this program among whom are Bishop W. Appleton Lawrence; Edwin T. Dahlberg, former President American Baptist Convention; John Haynes Holmes, Minister Emeritus, Community Church, New York; Matthew W. Clair, Bishop, Methodist Church; and many others. The church at which I am minister has unanimously adopted a resolution supporting the Mass. Council of Churches in this matter, and many ministers I know personally are preaching sermons on this subject because they think it of prime importance...