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...United Presbyterian Church. At the Presbyterians' 178th General Assembly in Boston last week, delegates elected Wichita Lawyer William Phelps Thompson, 47, as their new Stated Clerk over two other candidates, both ministers. Thompson, who for the past year has held the largely ceremonial office of moderator, succeeds the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, the new General Secretary of the World Council of Churches...
Conservative Mood. Thompson's victory was an upset, and after the election delegates commented that "he licked the machine." The machine in this case was the church's 23-man nominating committee which issued a "unanimous recommendation" in favor of the Rev. John William Meister, pastor of Fort Wayne's First Presbyterian Church, who agrees with Blake's views on clerical activism. Much to the committee's dis may, the delegates gave Thompson, who was nominated from the floor, 502 votes to 302 for Meister and 15 for the Rev. Hugh Miller, a New Jersey...
...other actions, the delegates also: ¶Elected as their new moderator the Rev. Ganse Little, 62, of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church, a dynamic Biblical preacher whose close relatives include five Presbyterian ministers. Little is a strong ecumenist who mixes his interest in theology with enthusiasm for pro football...
Carmichael, a founder of Alabama's all-Negro "Black Panther" Party, rejects the charge-raised by one of the Rev. Martin Luther King's top aides-that an all-Negro party is a kind of "reverse racism." He says that Negroes can no more join the Democratic Party of George Wallace than Jews could join the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler. The Southern Negro, he argues, would be dwarfed in either of the major parties, and can command the attention of whites only when he has shown his strength in his own party...
When he moved to Chicago last year from New Orleans, the Most Rev. John Patrick Cody brought along a well-founded reputation as a tough clerical administrator who likes to cut out deadwood. Last week Roman Catholic Cody lived up to his no-nonsense fame by firing one of the patron saints of Chicago-style liberalism: Auxiliary Archbishop Bernard J. Sheil, pastor of St. Andrew's parish and founder of the vast Catholic Youth Organization...