Religion: Eligible Chimpanzee

In the U. S. many a preacher and layman has grown tired of discussing Dr. Frank Buchman’s Oxford Group. But in Canada the subject is still alive. Last week in Toronto Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields, radio preacher and perfervid Fundamentalist (TIME, Sept. 17), told his Jarvis Street Baptist congregation:

“The Oxford Group is the biggest hoax ever forced upon man in the name of religion. It is devoid of any intellectual content; it is suited to people who don’t think at all. A chimpanzee would be eligible for membership provided it had a dinner jacket and looked respectable.”