Religion: A Cup of Water

"My first word must be a word of thanks to God, who blessed us by providing the opportunity .to visit America." The gaunt, grey man had been in the U.S. before: the worn black suit he was wearing had been given him by a grateful congregation in New Brunswick, N.J., where he had preached in 1947. But that had been long ago, before his years in Communist jails, years of poverty and isolation. Last week Bishop Lajos Ordass, Lutheran Primate of Hungary, looked with emotion on the free world again, but begged U.S. newsmen to remember in quoting him that...

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