Religion: Again, Jerusalem.

The story of the enlargement of Christianity is the story of men moving, thinking things, telling things; always essentially the story of the men who went out from Jerusalem after they had seen Christ die and disappear. This Easter, almost as if the twist of centuries had reversed the lines of force around Jerusalem, the men who are carrying Christianity into the corners of the world were drawn back to Palestine. Two hundred delegates, spokesmen for powerful Christian forces in 51 countries, gathered in Jerusalem for the International Missionary Council (TIME, April 2)....

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