Evening star., 1943-10-30
The Week in Re|ioion
BY Religious Neus Service.

Discussion by the Senate this week
of international collaboration COIN
eide with the launching of the Chris
tian Mission on World Order. be-
lieved to be the most ambitious
effort yet made by American Prot
estant churches to sell the country
on United States cooperation with
other nations after the war
The mission officially opens on
Monday when teams of four promi-
nent speakers will address meetings
simultaneously in nine different cit
les. A preliminary mass meeting was
held, however. at the Cathedral of
St. John tho Divine, New York City,
last Thursday.
More than 80 prominent clergy
men and laymen will participate in
the enterprise. which is being spon-
sored by six ma lor Protestant inter-
denOminati tional agencies. The mis-
sion will be held in some 100 cities
throughout the country during the
next three weeks. The mission opens
in Washington November g.
Sponsorship Local
Procedure will be similar to that
of the National Preaching Mission
which has been conducted by the
Federal Council for several years. In
each city the mission will be held
under the auspices Of local church
committees in cooperation with the
national committee. A series of
study and discussion meetings will
be held for ministers, laymen, young
people and others. A public mass
meeting will conclude the mission
in each city.
Mission speakers are expected to
stress a number of themes, chief of
which are
The United States must participate
in some form of postwar interna-
tional authority.
Americans must be aroused to the
need of a creative and "nonstatic"
attitude toward the problem Of
peace
The same moral or ethical princi-
pies governing the conduct of indi-
viduals must control relations among
governments and peoples.
Trend Crosses Creed Lines.
The trend toward world organiza-
ton is cutting across intercreedal
lines, as eXemplif1ed by the declara
ton on world peace issued by 146
top-ranking Protestant, Catholic and
Jewish leaders. There is also an
increasing unanimitv of opinion
among Christian leaders in other
countries regarding governmental
approaches to peace.
Mission speakers are expected to
avoid undue optimism in dealing
with international issues.
One of the chief proposals likely
to be made is that communicative
study groups on world order be
set up.
Meanwhile similar type of effort
by religious groups will be launched
in local communities next week un-
der the auspices of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews.
The first interfaith study conference
to consider the three-faith declars-
ton on world peace will be held in
Detroit on Wednesday.
1t was announced this week that
the Disciples of Christ are planning
an interdenominational conference
on the church and the postwar world,
to be held in Des Moines, Iowa, next
February.
MethOdistS to Start Drive.
The Methodist Church will launch
its own campaign against postwar
isolation shortly after the Christian
Mission on World Order concludes.
Nearly 100 conferences in major
cities across the country will feature
Methodism's crusade for a new
world order" from January $50,
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Before the opening of the Chris
tian Mission on World Order, the
commission to study the basis of