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...sermon yesterday at Memorial Church, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam called for hope and leadership in a world that seemed to be discouraged in the face of international and domestic problems. He said that both the problems of effective international organization and social and economic justice would have to be faced if we are to work for the brotherhood...
...prominent figure in many public undertakings and a leader in the Methodist Church, Bishop Oxnam returned only recently from Europe where he served with John Foster Dulles on the Commission for a Just and Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches in America...
...Bishop Oxnam has figured widely in the news recently in the dispute in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is scheduled to address a teachers' convention of the East Tennessee Education Association. Shortly after the announcement of his intended visit, the Knoxville Journal started a protest movement against his reception on the ground that he was communistic...
...Bishop Oxnam, a native of California and graduate of the University of Southern California, has held posts in many American colleges and has preached and lectured all over the world. His home is now in Brookline...
...their reception Bishop Oxnam was silent last week, said he would first report to the Federal Council's executive committee. But indications were that the Protestant churchmen had come away with high hopes. Said Presbyterian Delegate Dr. John A. Maclean: "We were assured that Mr. Taylor's service as ambassador to the Pope might terminate at an early date, but would certainly terminate with the signing of the peace treaties." To newsmen asking for "confirmation or denial," the White House gave a circumspect "no comment...