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...lasting force in the Congo (example: the Senate of the new republic, a moderating influence in the crisis, has many mission-trained Christian members). But it is also plain that the riots are precipitating the end of an era in the Congo. The Rev. Glenn Murray, 51, a Presbyterian missionary who has spent 20 years in Africa, takes an optimistic long view. "This whole thing will work out best for the church." he said. "It was very difficult to pull out and leave them, but now the Africans will have to take over the church themselves and accept responsibility...
Died. The Right Rev. Edward Lambe Parsons, 92, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of California from 1924 until retirement in 1941, outspoken advocate of uniting the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches; after being ill with pneumonia; in San Francisco...
...point while going for the nomination, the Kennedys badly wanted the votes of Washington, whose Governor, Albert Rosellini, a Roman Catholic, was cool. So they pitched vice-presidential woo to Washington's Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson, a Presbyterian. "Scoop is my personal choice, and Jack likes Scoop," said Bobby to a Jackson aide. "You've got to give us some pegs to hang our hats on. Go, go, go!" Scoop and his team went, went, went, talking up his vice-presidential prospects until to be anti-Kennedy in the Washington delegation was akin to being treasonably anti...
Good Will on the Spot. Crossroads-Africa is the idea of the Rev. James A. Robinson, Negro pastor of Harlem's Presbyterian Church of the Master, who has run interracial programs in the U.S. for 20 years. "The purpose," says he, "is to demonstrate tangibly that we are able and willing to work together, alongside our African friends." Apart from good will on the spot, the most important byproduct lies in a pledge made by each participant: he must average one talk on Africa every week for a year after he returns...
More than Sectarian. He also peels a sharp eye for stories of more than sectarian interest. After Ellen Severson was chosen Miss Miami Beach last year, Taft put her on the church page-in her role as organist and Sunday school teacher at Miami's Palmetto Presbyterian Church. When a phony evangelist named Jack Coe came to town, Taft exposed him, harvested 10,000 letters from readers-mostly grateful-and had the rich satisfaction of seeing Coe hastily strike his revival tent. Taft keeps running track of two Bade County lawsuits challenging a state law that requires public-school...