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The President also wrote to Dr. George A. Buttrick of the Federal Council of Churches and Rabbi Cyrus Adler of the Jewish Theological Seminary: ". . . It would give me great satisfaction if you would, from time to time, come to Washington to discuss the problems which all of us have on...
As to their reception Bishop Oxnam was silent last week, said he would first report to the Federal Council's executive committee. But indications were that the Protestant churchmen had come away with high hopes. Said Presbyterian Delegate Dr. John A. Maclean: "We were assured that Mr. Taylor'...
*From 1848 to 1867 the U.S. maintained a complete legation at the Vatican, discontinued it at the approaching collapse of the temporal power (which was restored by the Lateran treaty of 1929). France, which also separates church & state, and England, with a Protestant state church, both maintain diplomatic relations with...
...Protestantism is gaining members. It is collecting more money from them, too, and the average contribution for the collection plate is up. Last fortnight Everyone, Presbyterian quarterly, published the United Stewardship Council statistics for 1945.† Reports from 18 top Protestant denominations showed a net membership gain over 1944: 563,866 (2.2%); increase in gifts: $62,997,968 (14.9%); increase in per capita contributions...
Marguerite Stihlé, timid, toothless mother of 14 children: "I'm a Protestant . . . my husband got sick. ... I asked the church for help but they put me off. One day they even asked me for a contribution. I said 'To hell with them' and we all joined...