Much as they love and respect other Christians, Baptists love more the saving grace of baptism, the freedom of worship without the ministrations of a priesthood. Baptists may well be the most sizable group of Christians who will not march toward world church unity with the World Council of Churches (see col. 2). Last week in Richmond. Va., 5,000 "messengers" (delegates) to the Southern Baptist Convention representing 5,000,000 Baptists in 18 States, applauded two frank statements of the Baptist position on unity. A committee thumbed down "any federation, council or what not that would hinder us in the full and free...
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