Religion: Words & Works

¶ In Washington, the House of Representatives resolved that Congressmen standing in the need of prayer should have a place for quiet devotions in the Capitol. If the Senate agrees, a small room will be set aside between the House and Senate chambers.

¶ In New Hope, N.C., Presbyterian Pastor Charles M. Jones of Chapel Hill lost a final battle with the Orange Presbytery, which had removed him from his pulpit for showing too little regard for Presbyterian doctrine (TIME, Feb. 23). Announced Jones, after the Presbytery voted down his request for a change-of-venue appeal: he was resigning from the church’s ministry. “I cannot place dogma above Christianity … I believe [the Christian’s] first loyalty is not to his denomination but to the church universal.”