Religion: Tedium Yes, Ministration No

Fifteen busloads of Episcopalians—bishops, priests and laymen—took a morning off from the General Convention to tool through industrial Detroit for a look at "the 20th century workingman." Trailing through the pounding, whirring world of the assembly lines, the men and women from greystone, Gothic city churches and suburban spires stared at the men who are making the '62 models. The auto workers stared back.

"Do you know where you're going?" a riveter in the Plymouth plant asked the Rev. Charles G. Leavell of Henderson, Ky. "No," answered the minister mildly. Said the riveter: "You are going through hell."

"Do you like your work?"...

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