Award

Last year the Christian Herald Association, publishers of the Christian Herald, instituted an annual award for "distinguished religious service." The prize: A trip to the Holy Land. First distinguished religious server was Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South (TIME, Feb. 4).

Last week, at dinner in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, the Christian Herald award was given to a layman: Fred B. Smith, moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, chairman of the U. S. section of the World Alliance for International Friendship, ardent Prohibitionist. Said the Association: "You have been chosen because the Christian Church for more than 40 years has had in you a demonstration of what can be wrought by a layman who is wholly given to the purposes of Christ." Moderator Smith, Mrs. Smith (his second) will sail for Palestine Feb. 16 on S. S. Calgarie.

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