Religion: Next Meeting: 1953?

In a musty lecture hall of Toronto's Emanuel College, 47 men & women deliberated last week upon the state of Christendom. They were on hand for the third annual meeting of the 90-member Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, representing 160 million Protestants; as such, they could probably be called the most important Christian body in the world.

Like the 160 million, the 47 were most concerned about war and the threat of war. After careful word-weighing and the abstention of two members on pacifist grounds, the Committee produced a resolution on...

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