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Newly elected Chairman of the Board of Preachers George A. Buttrick will preach almost all of the sermons during the term. The only visitors scheduled at present are Paul J. Tillich, University Professor of Christianity; Reinhold Niebuhy, dean of the Faculty of Union Theological Seminary; and Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, of the Washington, D.C., area of the Methodist Church...
Correspondent Welles* found the archbishop in a sunken garden near Deering Library, waiting with other council officials to receive President Eisenhower. Leaning over the garden wall, Welles hailed Bishop Oxnam, whom he had met several years before, and said that he wanted to explain to the archbishop that TIME was planning to do a cover story on him. The archbishop came to the wall and invited Welles into the garden. Replied Welles: "The Secret Service won't let me come down there, but if Your Grace will play Romeo to my Juliet, perhaps we can discuss an interview date...
Thus the World Council of Churches opened its second Assembly (see box). U.S. Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam delivered the sermon. It was a great sermon, built around five words from the World Council's first Assembly in 1948 in Amsterdam: "We intend to stay together...
...Said Oxnam: "We have worshiped, witnessed and worked together. We intend to stay together...
Citation: "A master among astronomers ... he has explored the 'star-sown voids of space' the confines of the mind and the reaches of the spirit." G. Bromley Oxnam, secretary of the Council of Bishops of the Methodist Church...