A group of Pittsburgh's leading citizens gathered last week to hear a unique kind of promotion talk. The speaker marshaled his facts with the assurance of a man describing an appealing new bond issue, but he was, in fact, a Christian minister: the Rev. Roy A. Burkhart, pastor of Columbus, Ohio's First Community Church. The organization that Preacher Burkhart was selling is called World Neighbors, Inc. It is a bold attempt to fight Communism in the world's underdeveloped areas with a mixture of technical enterprise and Christianity by example. To the men gathered to hear about it in Pittsburgh (including U.S....
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