News Briefs
Diocesan Press Service. April 5, 1963 [IX-5]
ST. PAUL'S COLLEGE OBSERVES
NEW YORK --- Five officers of the National Council recently participated in the 75th anniversary observance of St. Paul's College, Lawrenceville, Va.
The Rev. Dr. Tollie L. Caution, associate secretary of the Home Department, preached the anniversary sermon, and his topic was "The Role of the Church-Related College in the Current Social Order. "
Marvin C. Josephson, director of the American Church Institute, an agency of the National Council, introduced Dr. Caution.
The Rt. Rev. Daniel Corrigan, director of the Home Department, the Rev. Dr. Almon R. Pepper, director of the Department of Christian Social Relations, and the Rev. Philip T. Zabriskie, executive secretary of the Division of College and University Work, served as panelists on a symposium.
VENTURE INTO NEW PATHS
A call to "venture into new paths" is sounded by the presidents of the World Council of Churches in their annual message for Pentecost, June 2, 1963.
In a message which will be read from pulpits in many lands and in many languages the presidents of the Council ask the 201 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox member churches:
"Do we begin and end with the Holy Spirit? Christians everywhere are united: To be a Christian is to have received the Holy Spirit; to be the Church is since, the first Pentecost, to be full of the Holy Ghost."
The presidents refer to "vast opportunities for Christian witness and service (that) still lie before us, untapped not simply from lack of helpers or resources, but fundamentally because we will not 'walk by the Spirit' or exercise the gift we have all of us received!" Among the presidents is the Archbishop of Canterbury.