Religion: The Challenge of Change

In Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church last week, delegates to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) met to hear reports on the state of the church, plot its course for another year, and elect a new Moderator to guide it. It was the 150th anniversary year of Presbyterian national missions, and as Moderator, the delegates, without a dissenting vote, chose the churchman who knows most about the church's mission work: the Rev. Hermann N. Morse, 64, of New York.

Unrepentant Liberal. A desk man rather than a pulpit man, Hermann Morse...

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