Churchmen, like businessmen and bees, tend to swarm in the late spring. Last week the denominational convention season was well under way, and elections, budgets and resolutions filled the air.
¶In Miami, 11,584 "messengers," as Southern Baptist voting delegates are called, met to represent 8,169,491 members of 29,899 churches in 30 states. They passed a record budget of $10 million for 1956 (up $800,000 over 1955) and elected the Rev. Dr. Caspar C. Warren of the First Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C. as convention president. Under the eyes of a delegation of nine Baptists from the U.S.S.R., the convention...
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