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...also works at the natural level, as our Lord clearly saw, overruling and guiding even the minds of non-Christian men and women. There is, in the words of the collect, a 'never-failing Providence which ordereth all things both in heaven .and earth.' Such then, according to the New Testament, is the koinonia [fellowship] of the Spirit...
Archbishop de Blank sees the Christian church in South Africa "at a crossroads. Unless it openly and publicly repudiates the doctrine and practice of compulsory segregation, it is condemning itself to extermination-and the whole of South Africa will be wide open to secularism and non-Christian creeds...
...which he is famous, plus conferences with Protestant mission leaders and heads of government. They will also face an unprecedented confusion of tongues; some local leaders asked for as many as five translators to relay Billy's words. And they will be up against stiff competition from non-Christian groups, notably the growing numbers of Moslems, and many offbeat Christian sects, such as Ghana's Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim, and the Musama Disco Christo Church...
...Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council of Churches commented that much would depend on "how ecumenical the council will be, in composition and spirit." There are "enormous" possibilities for cooperation (e.g., joint action against Communist oppression, prevention of atomic warfare, the problems of Christians in non-Christian countries), "provided that the Vatican is willing to admit and accept dogmatic differences." In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury indicated that the Anglican Church would send an observer, if invited, but a spokesman for the Presbyterian Church of Scotland was dour. "We are very keen on the ecumenical movement...
Noted speakers for non-Christian religions, including Moslem Muhammad Za-frulla Khan, a judge of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, and Buddhist U Chan Htoon, Justice of the Supreme Court of Burma, contributed speeches of great good will. But it was Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof of Pittsburgh's Rodef Shalom Temple (Reform) who came close to denning much that is wrong with religious liberalism. Said he: There is a "sort of spiritual restlessness, a hunger" in the hearts of modern men, and it is expressed, among other things, by the bestsellers. The type of religion found...