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Predicts Dr. Gardner Taylor, 45, Negro pastor of Brooklyn's Concord Baptist Church: "The streets are going to run red with blood...
...first: at Minneapolis in 1954. * The once vital Nonconformist churches do no better: during the past 50 years, membership in English Congregationalist churches has declined 50%, and in the Baptist churches 25%. Thanks to Irish immigration, Roman Catholics have increased rapidly since World War II, now number 5,000,000. But Sunday attendance at Mass is depressingly low. * When Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. tried to take over Courtaulds, Ltd. in 1961, records showed the church to be second largest shareholder in both corporations. The church currently owns 2,600,000 shares of the British Motor Corp...
...Church of England's 39 Articles, far from being an authorized confession of the faith, are mentally rejected in whole or part by nearly every Anglican cleric who "assents" to them when he assumes church office. The Anglican faith encompasses Evangelical missionaries as fundamentalist as any Southern Baptist and such subtle, sophisticated minds as San Francisco's Bishop James A. Pike, who questions the virgin birth and speaks of "demythologizing" the Resurrection...
Armed with 20,000 books, the volunteers hold classes for four hours a day at seven makeshift centers around the county. In Farmville, classes fill the pews of Beulah A.M.E. Church and the First Baptist Church. In Levi, the teachers swept the broken glass out of an abandoned schoolhouse and set up shop. In Hampden-Sydney, they teach in a fly-swept Sunday school with chickens scratching in the dust outside. And the kids, some of them walking three miles, have flocked to school in such numbers that teachers had to cut off enrollment...
...Tredegar Iron & Coal Co., and the audible heroes were the preachers in the chapels and the orators in the miners' lodges. Nye Bevan grew up in a time when Welsh nonconformity was moving from religion to politics, and Nye moved with the times. He easily shed the Methodist-Baptist faith of his home, because it transformed so easily into political evangelism. Roaming the green hills above the black pitheads, he spouted verses to cure his stammer, and, in a race fearsomely gifted with the power of speech, he became a noted orator...