Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...World Council leaders were care ful to warn against too optimistic a picture of a Catholic-Protestant alliance. Said the Rev. Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "Anything which suggests the possibility of closer unity among Christians is of course to be welcomed. But frankly, no one here really thinks that there is any possibility of reunion with Rome...
...Gentle." Even more important, Johnson has shown a monastic dedication to sport that would please the most spiritual of Olympic enthusiasts. He has shrugged off crippling injuries. In competition he has cheered on his most dangerous opponents. Says the Rev. Louis Evans, pastor of Los Angeles' Bel Air Presbyterian Church: "This is a most remark able human being. He is as gentle as a child, and yet he is tremendously competitive...
...course," chimed in the Rev. Pearce Higgins, vicar of Putney and vice chairman of the Church Fellowship for Psychical Studies, "the spirit is not a little fellow with horns and a tail. But if the human spirit is immortal-the basis of Christian teaching-why should not some spirits feel lost after death and come to inhabit another body?" In any case, he went on, "an evil-or, as I prefer to call it, 'low-grade'-spirit should always be prayed for with great compassion." Vicar Higgins' gentle formula for exorcism: "Depart into the realm of light...
Sylvania's passengers quickly volunteered; 65, many of them students off to tour Canada, were hired as stewards, stewardesses, waiters and kitchen hands. Among them was the Rev. Alan Greene, 70, a master mariner who used to pilot his own Anglican missionary ship along Canada's west coast. As he reported for work, towel over his arm, he quipped: "What a life! From ship's captain to dumb waiter...
...Healing Power of Poetry, by Dr. Smiley Blanton (Crowell; $3.95). The author, perhaps the only positive-thinking psychiatrist in the country, is the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale's trusted associate. Says Dr. Peale: "Actually, this book is but another means by which this kindly doctor loves people into improved health...