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...Sheep Stealing." Part of Pentecostal's appeal-particularly to migrants-is this total, emotional participation. One Puerto Rican described the U.S. Catholic Church he rejected as "like a supermarket-cold and formal." Says Presbyterian Rafael Martinez of Chicago's interdenominational Casa Central: "When you walk into a Pentecostal service, you are likely to be asked, no matter who you are, your name, where you are from, and 'Brother, do you have a word...
...acknowledging a similarity between the unsophisticated, unfashionable Pentecostals and the unsophisticated, unfashionable early Christians. Says Jesuit Scholar Daniel J. O'Hanlon: "We can learn from the Pentecostals that the central Christian message must be proclaimed in all its clarity and simplicity." Admits William Elliott, chairman of the Presbyterian Board of World Missions: "We do not feel that they excel us in a theological point of view. But they often shame us in their zeal to proclaim our Lord as they understand...
Thank you for your article on the Vatican Council [Oct. 5]. I am a member of a Presbyterian Church, and I have little knowledge concerning Catholicism, so I enjoyed learning about many phases of the Catholic world: past councils, Pope John XXIII and the present Vatican Council...
...WILLIAM F. PRUITT American Presbyterian Congo Mission Lulabourg, Republic of Congo...
Died. The Rev. Dr. John Leighton Stuart, 86, one of the ablest of the Old China Hands and the last U.S. ambassador on the mainland (1946-53), a spare, scholarly Presbyterian missionary who in 1919 founded China's No. 1 Christian university, American-endowed Yenching, and saw this center of Western learning in the Orient survive Japanese occupation only to become a Marxist-Leninist thought factory; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as ambassador by President Truman's special envoy, General George Marshall, Stuart vainly attempted to bring about a peaceful settlement between China's warring Communists and Nationalists...