Religion: Mission to Jews

"Till the conversion of the Jews" denotes a vague and distant future.*

But an important Protestant voice last week suggested that the time might be closer at hand than it seems. The voice: the Rev. Dr. H. Conrad Hoyer of Chicago, who is soon to be associate secretary of the National Council of Churches' Division of Home Missions. Dr. Hoyer was speaking in Atlantic City last week at the annual meeting of the National Lutheran Council (representing eight church bodies and more than 5,000,000 U.S. churchgoers).

Reported Hoyer: at a "theological consultation" of "the church and Judaism" held last year by delegates from...

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