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...seemed deliberately to dismiss the pageant splendor around him, fumbling in his robes for his spectacles and his handkerchief. Carefully he cleaned each lens, placed the glasses on his nose, and wiped a drop of moisture from the palm of one hand. Then he began in fluting tones to preach for the first time to a flock that is noted in all Christendom for its indifference to the church...
...Miller's commencement address on the future for religion in modern civilization. After hearing theological mumblings for years, it is good to have heard the clearest, truest voice yet. It is sometimes a shock for young ministers to learn that they have been ordained just in time to preach the funeral of God. Often they haven't even heard that he was sick. Perhaps with the leadership of such prophets as Miller, there can be a resurrection-even...
Amid the complacent pleasures of commencement week, 680 Princeton seniors trooped into University Chapel to hear President Robert F. Goheen preach the baccalaureate. "If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground," said he, "then the university has failed...
...unionists how to organize, the Communists will), the Brussels-based I.C.F.T.U. maintains six fulltime roving representatives in Africa, pumped in $432.000 in hard cash last year. The money goes for union buildings, instruction in collective bargaining, and education of union officials in lands where labor organizers ride bicycles and preach worker solidarity to illiterates who have never heard of Marx, much less George Meany. I.C.F.T.U. makes a point that colonial officials cannot: that the time and money of union leaders in African lands are far better spent in free bargaining with employers to raise wages than in bitter anticapitalist, antiwhite...
...growing political force, though it has yet to win power in any of the hemisphere's 22 nations. Described by Garcia Bustillos, the Venezuelan Congressman who opened the meeting, as "international but not an International," the Christian Democrats declare themselves dedicated enemies of colonialism, capitalism and Communism. They preach a social revolution that must use orderly and just means. They advocate immediate agrarian reform, demand careful state regulation of corporate profits, and complete labor union, freedom. Says Leónidas Xausa, 28, city councilman in Pórto Alegre, Brazil: "The future of Latin America will be decided between...