Up until last week no U. S. Protestant denomination had given full, official approval to Re-Thinking Missions, the report made public last month by the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry (TIME, Nov. 28). Of the seven denominations whose laymen were concerned in the Inquiry, only three mission boardsMethodist, Baptist. Congregational have guardedly agreed to cooperate.
Last week two more churches made known their position. The General Council of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. revealed that, meeting in Chicago three weeks ago, it had unanimously pronounced the report "virtually a denial...
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