Religion: Words & Works

¶ In Chicago, the Southern Baptist Convention, which has admitted Negroes to membership for several years, but has not yet allowed a Negro to vote, urged at its annual meeting an end of resistance to racial integration. The convention called on police and the courts to protect the Negro, "irrespective of his position or culture, from lawless attacks upon his person or property."

¶ Faced with an explosive plan to merge the Church of Scotland with the Church of England, appoint elders for the Anglicans, elect bishops for the Scots (TIME, June 3), the...

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