Religion: A Plane's-Eye View

Christianity's greatest missionary, St. Paul, had his hands full keeping in touch with a scattering of churches along the shores of the Mediterranean. When the president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Henry P. Van Dusen, took a few months off early this year for some churchly visitation he calmly set out to visit church groups on four continents and in 20 countries, a trip of some 40,000 miles.* Last week in a sermon at Wellesley College, Dr. Van Dusen reported what he had found on his "plane's-eye view of Christianity around the world."

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