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...other matters the Presbyterian General Assembly heard some gloomy, some heartening statistics...
...Presbyterian foreign missions have been hard hit-307 missionaries are in Jap-controlled areas. But the Assembly voted to recruit 500 new missionaries to send to areas now war-blocked the moment peace comes. Meanwhile Presbyterians are doing more in Latin America...
...America's war just and righteous? Yes, said the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. last week. No, it decided, 24 hours later...
These actions highlighted the annual meetings of two great U.S. denominations last week-the Presbyterian General Assembly at Milwaukee, the Northern Baptist Convention at Cleveland...
...Presbyterians. At Milwaukee shrewd, silver-tongued ex-Moderator Hugh Thomson Kerr of Pittsburgh caught Presbyterian pacifists off guard on the next to last day. In a silencingly eloquent speech he got the Assembly to declare that "the cause for which our nation is at war is just and righteous, and that our freedom, our culture and our historic faith are dependent upon the outcome of this conflict." This is the nearest a major church on either side of the lines has officially come to calling World War II a holy...