John Calvin, born 450 years ago this year, would have been surprised at some of the subjects considered last week by his spiritual offspring. The lyist General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. wound up its seven-day meeting in Indianapolis, and by the time the last of the nearly 1,000 commissioners (delegates) went home, it was clear that the Presbyterians had covered a lot of ground. Items: ΒΆ In two separate resolutions the Assembly took note of the vexed question of recognizing Communist China and admitting it to the U.N., which roiled U.S. Protestant waters when the Fifth...
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