Religion: Presbyterians

Fifteen people had ready a hot potato to drop into the hand of Mother Presbyterian Church last week. They were the special Commission on Marriage, Remarriage and Divorce; the hot potato was the section of their report, published last April (TIME, May 4), which recommended that Mother Church approve Birth Control for her children (see p. 32). In Pittsburgh last week were convening more than 900 Commissioners to the 143rd annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. To a hotel three miles from that part of Pittsburgh where...

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