The Methodist Federation for Social Action is a small (membership: 4,000), unofficial organization of bishops, ministers and laymen founded 43 years ago "to promote social action in the spirit of Jesus." Many a distressed Methodist has come to think that its real aim is to promote Karl Marx. The Un-American Activities Committee has used a short, ugly name for the federation: tool of the Communist Party. Last week, under the severest accumulated criticism in federation history, 56 of the 4,000 members turned up for the annual meeting in Evanston, Ill. Main question: Should they save, or sack,...
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