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Full Report of World Council Meeting the WITNESSI SERVICES SERVICES in Leading Churches for Christ and His Churchj in Leading Churches The ESS SEPTEMBER 1, 1960 lip publication. and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / Church Episcopal the of Archives 2020. Copyright PROBLEMS OF THE SPACE AGE Faced by Central Committee of World Council Full Report of World Council Meeting The WITNESSI SERVICES SERVICES In Leading Churches For Christ and His Churchj In Leading Churches THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH CHRIST. CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE CAMBRIDGE, MASe. Sunday: Holy Communion 7, 8, 9, 10;j EDITORIAL BOARD The Rev. Gardiner Mt. Day, Racier Prayer, Holy Communion =mrinsdSron, 11; Evensong and W. B. SPOFFORD SR., Mansagmn Editor Sunday Services: 8:00, 9s30 an sermon, 4. KENNETH Ri. FORBES; Roscoa T. Fourr; 11:15 a.m. Wed. and Holy Days: 3:00 and 12:10 p.m. Weekdays: _Holy Communion, 7:30 GORDON C. GRAsHAM; ROBEsR HAMPSHaIRE; (and 10 Wed.); Morning Prayer, CHARLES S. MARTIN; ROBERT F. 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Holy Days 11; Thursday, 5:30 p.m. ST. JOHN'S CHURCH THE CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY ST. PAUL'S MEMORIAL Lafayette Square York Avenue at 74th Street Grayson and Willow Sts. .WASMNTOiNn, D. Near New York Memorial Hospitals SANI AsrroNo, Tzx~s The Rev. Donald W. Maybersr, Reoss. Husgh McCandless. Lee Belford, Richard The Rev. James Joseph, Rector Louis, Philip Zab~riskie, clergy N. Taylor, Associate Weekday Services: Mon., Tues., Than., The Rev. George Saturday, Holy Communion at nosm. Sundays: 8 am. HC; 9:30 Family (HC Sunday - Matins and Holy Eucharist Wed. and Fri., Holy Communion at 35) 11 MP (HC IS). 7:30, 9:00 and 11:00 A.M. 7:30 am.; Morning Prayer at no- Wed. HO 7:20 a.m.; Thurs. HC Wednesday and Hol y Days 7 and Sunday Services: 8 and 9:30 a ., H 11 a.m. 10 A.M. Holy Eucharist. Communion; 11, Morning Prayer and One of New York's Sacrament of Forgiveness - Saturday Sermon; 4 p.m., Service in Pzsnck most8 beautiful public buisldinsgs. 11:30 to 1 P.M. 7:30, Evening Prayer. VOL. 45, NO. 27 The WITNESS SEPTEMBER 1, 1960 FOR CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH Editorial and Publication Office, Eaton Road, Tulkhasmoek, Pa. Story of the Week to the central committee by the World Council Central Committee commission on faith and order, which had met August 3-8 in Faces Worldwide Problems triennial session. The statement declares that * An overflow congregation organization. It is the redis- the unity sought is primarily a of 1,700 people in St. Giles covery of the basic truths of local unity or "one which brings Cathedral, Edinburgh, joined in the Church, the restored all in each place who confess publication. a service of thanksgiving on awareness that it is of the very Christ Jesus as Lord into a full, and Sunday, August 14, to mark the essence of the Church of Christ committed fellowship with one 50th anniversary of the first to be a gathered, reconciled another." reuse International Missionary Con- people, not for its own sake but It emphasizes that the unity for ference held in Edinburgh in for the sake of the world." sought "is not one of uniformi- 1910. He paid tribute to Dr. Baillie ty nor a monolithic power They prayed that the Church and other pioneers of the ecu- structure." The commission's required "will seek to recover the lost menical movement who "did statement a 1 s o admits that unity of the Church of Christ not think of ecumenical work there are certain issues in and proclaim Christ to the as a hobby" but gave it their achieving this goal in which best years with total commit- Permission uttermost parts of the world." there is "not yet a common ment and the conviction that The service opened with a mind." fanfare of trumpets, followed this was God's will. Henri d'Espine, commission DFMS. "They had to fight for this / by a procession of 200 robed vice-chairman, said that the new and unheard-of thing that church leaders from all parts of statement implies that there the world down the long center Christians of completely differ- would no longer be in each local- Church aisle of the historic church. ent backgrounds should work ity several churches, but one and live together and think of church comprising all those in W. A. Visser 't Hooft, in an themselves as members of a address to the congregation (in that locality, who confess the Episcopal world-embracing fellowship in Lordship of Jesus Christ. place of World Council president Christ," he declared. the Dr. John Baillie who is ill), Their union, he continued, of said that Edinburgh was the would be based on the same point from which the Churches Commission Reports baptism and express itself by the preaching of the same Gos- Archives began "a continuing fellowship, Of Form of Unity a living and working together pel and by participation in the * Strong support was given same bread. 2020. - at first hesitantly, later with increasing conviction." in a discussion on a statement The Swiss professor said that defining the theological nature "it means the local community The general secretary told the and organization of the form of would be linked to the whole Copyright congregation it was "missionary Christian unity. of all concern which led to concern for Christian community The statement was presented by the the total witness of the times and of all places fact that its ministry and Church." members will be acknowledged "We must go further," he by all." urged.
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