At the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver last week, a bearded ecclesiastic startled the desk clerk by trying to get change for a napkin-sized, 1914-era $100 bill, given to him, he explained, by his grandmother. The well-heeled visitor was one of 16 Russian church leaders who showed up at the National Council of Churches' General Board meeting, to be greeted coldly by some protesting right-wing fundamentalists and warmly by two of the nation's most prestigious Protestants: J. Irwin Miller, layman president of the council and Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, Stated Clerk of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
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