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I shall always be grateful for the honour conferred upon • me by the .Church in electing me one of the of- ficial delegates to represent the Pres- byterian Church in Canada at the First Assembly of The World Council] of ,,,Churches, which rnet in Amsterdam, August '250, - September 5th, 1948, The experiences of these days will al- ways be a treasured memory, Since my return to this country I have heard so many strange and weird stories of the purpose of that meet- ing that I feel it would do us good to refresh our memories as to the history of Amsterdam. For forty years the Churches have ;been' looking forward to that Which was accomplished last August. Forty year ago the Mission- ary Societies ,of tIre various demonina- tions saw that the task of evangeliz- ing the world was not going to be ac- complished as separate groups. They saw that we must woyk together in the missionary fields of the Church. There must be co-ordination and a definite • planning "of concerted effort. Out of the Union Missionary Convention held in New York in 1854 there cane into being a Missionary Conference held. in 1910 in Edinburgh. This led to formation of the International Coune cil in 1920. The ChureheS had not met together to eonsidr the missionary outreach long before they were led into discus- sions' on faith and order and so there arose the Faith and Order Branch, with conferences at Lausanne in 1927, Edinburgh, 1937, Utrecht in 1938 and so on. In 1914 a group of 1:6en Christian workers• for peace met in Constance to form the World Alliance for Inter- national friendship through the Chur- ches and this Alliance ultimately be- came, the Life and Work Movement with conferences at Stockholm 1925, Oxford in 1937, Utrecht fn 1938. These three streams came together and made Amsterdam. Amsterdam was not a flash in a pan, It was not a fly by night campaign, For forty years we have been looking forward to that which was accomplished in the crea- tion.of the World Council of Churches. The World Council of Churches should have met in 1939 but the war came and there was a delay of ten years and, like so many of the delays of life, it was good for us to wait. We were strengthened. In the meanttime we were drawn closer to one another as we faced common perils, When we met at Amsterdam we meant some- thing to each other; something real, something definite. We had worked together in time of war, we must now act together in time of peace, As pnc looked over the personnel at Amster- dam, one was impressed with the fact that here were men who could easily say "1 bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus" for here we're men who had gone into the concentration camp, who had- risked everything for the sake of Jesus Christ, men who would stake their lives on the gospel, men who had dared toosay to mighty dictators-"We bow the knee only to our God," l3errgrav was there. Nie- molleur was there and others, So much for the history of Amster- dam, Let us now look at the constitu- tion' of the Assembly itself. There were official delegates, alternates, vis- itors, consultants and observers. There Were 86.1 delegates, 288 alternates, 270 clerical delegates And 81 lay delegates, There were 147 different Churches re- presented. I like to think of these as units in the battalion of Christ's army, We often sing "Like a mighty army MONTS the Church of God" and so it d9es, We were standing shoulder to shoulder with each other, Am thinking of the opening ser- vice on Sunday, August 22, 1948, Be- fore our eyes the representatives of 147 Christian Churches from 44 wide- ly separated lands streamed in' sae= procession into the high vaulted Nie- uwe Kirk (over 300 years old at that.) Priests of the Orthodox Churches marched in with their full beards, un- cut hair, in flowing robes, wearing round black hats and great gold cross- es hung on chains about their necks. There were non-conformists in busi- ness suits; there were LutheranS and Calvinists in white bands and Geneva gowns. The Anglicans in surplice and colored stole seemed almost drab com- pared to one scarlet-robed ex-Moder- ator of the Church of Scotland. I al- most missed the Archbishop of Can- terbury altogether as he walked by,. And there were skins of every hue from the blackest black of Africa ter. an almost translucent white of Swed- en, It was a solemn moment, that pro- cessional, to see all those men (and women, too) gathered from east and west to worship and praise God in their many tongues, yes, and to hear them sing— "All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice", and singing it in several languages at once, But different as were these Christ- ians from many lands in outward ap- pearance,lc: I reckon more deep and wide the gulfs between in thought and if For Catholics and Protestants were there. Impatient,practical western Americans were there. And calm, irrit_ tatingly patient (could they be stag- nant?) orientals fromeast of the iron curtain. There Were radicals and Iiber.als, conservatives and revolutionaries, act- ivists and essentialists, .each speaking his own language -excessively diffi- cult to understand not merely because of their ,varying mother tongues, but even more' because of their thought'. patterns and habits of mind. What was the purpose of the World Council? Let it be said quite distinct- ly that it was not to unite all the Churches. It was not to create a sup- erchurch and superimpose some vast machinery on all the demoninations. It was, as its name-signifies, a Council of Churches and the word "Churches" is in the plural form. It was a Council meeting on the basis of those who consider our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour." It is worthy of note that on that basis there was no discussion either in the Assembly, or in the sections or committees, That theme was not discussed. Every mem- ber and every member aural accept- ed Jesus Christ as God and Saviour. The various International Churches were agreed on that. In other things there- were discussions, plenty of dis- cussions, keen discussions, animated discussion and prolonged discussions but, on that basis, on the centre of the wheel, no. discussions but on the cir- cumference of the wheel plenty of discussions. SALA What did they do? For two years the world's greatest scholars in theo- logy had been working on the books covering the theme of the Assembly— "Man's Disorder and God's Design." There were four sections meeting each morning tinder the sub-headings of the main theme, namely: Section 1—"The Universal Church in. God's Design," which was charged with defining the nature of the Church, Bishop Hafts Lilje of the Evangelical Church in Germany, was Chairman. Section 11—"The Church's Witness to God's Design," which must define and direct the evangelistic trend of the Church and face the responsibility of the Churches-Tor mankind, Dr. John A, MacKay of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and President of Princeton Theological Seminary, was Chairman. Section 111—"The Church and Dis- order of Society," which, must face realistically tile many problems of dis- integration and confusion in society and the Churches' relatiot to them. C. L. Patyn, layman of the Dutch Reformed Church and a lawyer; was Chairman, .:Section IV—"The Church and time International Disorder," which was assigned the intricate problems of war and the area of political philosophies, and the Church's part. in making a stand for what it considers right, Mr. Kenneth G. Grubb, layman of the Church of England, was the Chairman. In the aftermfon the delegates and alternates split up into seven groups for the work of the committees: Committee I, on Constitutions, Rul- es and Regulations," was under the chairmanship of Dr, A, Koechlin, of the Swift Protestant Church Feder- ation, Committee II, on "Policies," was under the chairmanship of Dr, C, K. A, Bell, the Anglican Bishop of Chi- chester, England. Committee III, on "Programme and Administration," was tinder the chair- inanslqp of Bishop Cr, Bromley Oxnani of the Methodist thtiteli, Cmmittee 1V, on "the Concerns of the Churches," was divided into four sob-committees. (a) "The Life and Work of the Wo- men in the, Church," with ,Miss Same Chakko of the Methodist Church hi India, as Cliairfrom, EV ()LET TRUCKS F THERE'S A CHEVROLET TRUCK FOR EVERY JOB with capacities from 4,000 lbs. to 16,000 lbs. G.V.W.1 A PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS CT-I 49A WINGHAM MOTORS Telephone' 139 MD Wingharn, Ontario 'enatommoitaiiie this ,There were members in the sec- tions from behind the iron curtain. We wanted to hear how our brethren fared there and this could only be done by giving protection to our friends. Since when has .it become 'a sin to lend the robe of brotherly protection to one in distress. There were four committees:- 1. Committee on Constituticinal Questions, 2. 'Committee an. Policies. 3. Committee on Budget and Fin- ance. 4, Committee on Concerns of the Churches, I was assigned to the 3rd. Commit- tee, the Committee on' Budget and Finance. The Committees did their work and reported their findings and they were accepted by the Assembly with prac- tically no change. This was not so with the Sections. World famed theo- logians were present and on some is- sues there was sharp cleavage of opin- ion. This was reported in the press, but the press did not always make it clear that the differences of opinion manifested were always in the spirit of the utmost courtesy and Christian brotherliness. We knew in the Amsterdam Assembly—that Jesus Christ was far greater than any interpretation of Aim, and that our common Lord was calling us all to a broader and deeper ecumenical understanding of our faith. I am thinking now particularly of the addresses on "Communism and Capitalism". It would have been very simple for them to say that one was all white and the other all black, but they were trying to find a word, a true „word, and so they had something very definite to say about atheistic communism and laissez-faire capital- ism. There was Ilromadka, formerly a I teacher at Princeton Theological Sum- friary, noti,.. back in Prague on the 'firing line in a Presbyterian Churcl, that is wondpring whether it can sur- vive (above ground) in the revolution- ary ti talitarium state that is develop- ing week by wet-k just in,ly iii c,:vel l „- Sdava.kia. When he and John Foster Dulles addressed the Assembly on' Christian duty to-day in it-act-nano' tial relationships, one felt somehow sorry for them both, each lionestZy stniggi* ling in Christian brotherhood Cu spread, God's Word to the world ism the iarya of the great gulf between Fastest communism and, Western dyer :c The fact that there was a -,,,Teat [creme in what they said sktuld sum* 'print' 1101)04 With imagination_ The fact that newspaper Lea (Dints emphasized the clash wto. to Fie•ezt* peeled. lint the fart that both were struggling desperately to put their truth under the larzer trutU of Jesus (Continued ,in Rage' four) (b) "The Christian Approach to the Jews", with Bishop Angus Dun of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A., as Chairman. (c) "The Training of Laymen in the Church," with Drt., Conrad Hoff- man Of the International Missionary Council, as Chairman. (d) "Christian Reconstruction and Inter-Church Aid," with Bishop Arne Fikellbu, of the Church of Norway, as Chairman. Since all of the work of both the Sections and the Committees was very confidential, and concerned only the delegates, consultants, and alternates, the visitors were free to enjoy an ex- cellent series of addresses in the Con- certgebouw on "The Condition and Task of the Church around the World," It 'so happened that I was assigned to Section IV and a most interesting and challenging section it proved to be. The sections met behind closed doors, only those members who had been assigned to the section had been admitted. There is nothing, peculiar in