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Layman Rockefeller had warned the churches that their survival hinged on their joining in a "great rebirth," had urged them to "pronounce ordinance, ritual, creed, all nonessential for admission into the Kingdom of God or His Church. ... A life, not a creed, would be the test." He pleaded for "a more spiritual and less formal religion . . . not for modification of form but for its subordination to the spirit...
...Christian by conviction: John D. Rockefeller Jr. He has given much of his life and fortune to the cause of church unity. Last week, as he often had before, John D. Jr. hit hard at disunity, warned that the churches' survival hinged on their joining in a great rebirth as the "Church of the Living God." Said he at a dinner of New York's Protestant Council...
Harvard undergraduates exhibited a trend away from wartime's emphasis on the natural sciences as they filed plans of concentration at University Hall Friday. Figures released by Dean Hanford's office reveal a rebirth of interest in the liberal arts, with English and allied subjects leading the field...
Ordeal and Rebirth. Yet when the war came, the legends of resistance seeping out of occupied countries were starred with names of heroic men of God. Niemöller, Faulhaber and Galen in Germany itself, Hlond in Poland, De Jong in Holland, Damaskinos* in Greece and the aged Patriarch Gavrilo Dozich in Yugoslavia, all stood firm against the Nazis. With them stood a host of unnamed churchmen, like the 1,300 priests slaughtered in Poland, the priest and the pastor in Czechoslovakia who together faced a firing squad avenging the death of Heydrich the Hangman, and the French priest active...
According to Professor Vietor, who came here from Germany in 1937, "conditions for some time to come after the war will hardly offer any chance for a quick rebirth of the nation as such." He explains, that, in the long run, "the decisive thing should be whether there will develop a spiritual or religious movement strong enough to make the nation realize how deeply it has deteriorated and that it has to struggle for some kind of moral and intellectual renewal...