The taint of anti-Semitism—for that is what it amounts to—is rotting the life of the Christian Church in many lands," declared the Rev. William Paton, secretary of the International Missionary Council, at the Worle Conference on Church, Com-end State at Oxford, where is the fact that in certain lands—and I don't think here merely of Germany—Jewish converts to Christianity are not welcomed into the Church," he said. "What is the use of saying to one another that we ong to Christ, to a brotherhood t is universal, when Christendom s shown itself almost unconcerned bout the fate of Christians of Jewish blood? Contrast the loyalty with which the Jews have stood by th own people.
In Manchuria, he said, the simple Chinese pastors and Christians had to face still greater perils at the hands of a State that would brook no rival to its own absolute schemes Professor Stefan Zankov, of Sofia, said that it was in accord with the practice of the Orthodox Church that the Church should not entangle itself with worldly concerns, and it should not take direct action in the social and political realms because that involved endangering its religious character and secularising Church life to a certain extent.
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