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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1948
Page
4
The Star-News religion editor Dr. George Richmond Grose is on a brief leave. This week general interest articles will substitute for his editorials for readers of this page.
Dr. J R Sizoo president of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary urged a re emphasis of religion in social work. Speaking to 100 delegates at a Church Conference on Social Work he warned of secular disillusionment and urged the Church to join with social workers to tackle hunger and hate for lasting change.
At the 38th annual Yale University Divinity School convention in Champaign Illinois Dean Luther Weigle rails against a recent Supreme Court ruling barring religious instruction in public schools calling it mischievous and loose in wording and urging the Federal Council of Churches to push for clarifying decisions. Rt Reverend Henry Knox Sherrill warns against church complacency and urges unity to counter secularism and paganism noting a growing spirit of cooperation despite ongoing divisions.
Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun of Washington DC urged local congregations to pursue unity arguing that division among Christian churches is a scandal and offense. He warned that world council assembly efforts depend on members’ recognition of the need for unity amid denominational competition. Twenty four Protestant denominations attended the meeting discussing strategy to advance Protestantism locally.
Leaders of Protestant Catholic and Jewish faiths form an inter religious group in Vienna to fight anti-Semitism and religious intolerance. Miss Amny Wein vettl heads the effort, coordinating with the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the International Council of Christians and Jews. The group plans lectures on Franz Werfel and Franz Kalka as its initial project.
The Southern Moravian Province in Winston-Salem announces a 10 year building plan with a 5000000 fundraising drive starting April 29. Goals include aiding local Moravian church building creating new facilities endowing a practical theology chair and funding Moravian publications and office renovations. One fifth of the funds will endow a chair at Moravian Theological Seminary Bethlehem Pa in memory of Bishop Edward Randthaler.
Twelve American delegates will hold key spots in the Amsterdam assembly opening August 22. Dr. Samuel Cavert announced plans in New York, noting 235 American Protestants and Orthodox will join delegates from 30 countries. The program includes opening address by Dr. John R. Mott and reports on church nature, missions, social disorders, and world relations.
The Methodist Church board of education plans about 90 summer youth caravans to revitalize local church programs. The project seeks around 360 staffers under 24 who have completed two years of college or equivalent, with each caravan comprising two men, two women, and an adult counselor. The program began in 1929 and aims to aid youth activity and postwar transition.
In a letter to German Catholic leaders Pope Plus XV urges the world to forget the past and give Germany and Europe hope for a better future. Three German cardinals attend in Rome as he cites Nazi crimes but argues expulsions of 12,000,000 Germans after the war cannot be justified. He warns history may judge harshly the expulsion policy and calls for outside aid to revive poverty-stricken Germany.
Charles P. Taft president of the Federal Council of Churches urged immediate protection for Jerusalem in a letter to Warren R. Austin head of the U S delegation to the United Nations. He called for Jerusalem to be declared an open city and for UN trusteeship authority with a corridor of free access and a police force to safeguard holy sites. Copies went to Trygve Lie and Francis B Sayre.
Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hannover, visiting New York, urges Europe to adopt a new sense of Christian responsibility. He favors a generous Allied policy and Germany’s participation in international life, including the United Nations, while stressing youth engagement and open forums to discuss daily life issues.
Dr Geoffrey Fisher Archbishop of Canterbury addressed the British Council of Churches spring meeting urging the United Nations to appoint a governor general to be responsible for the peace of Jerusalem. He criticized the UN as dilatory and ineffective on Palestine and said they avoid responsibility hoping Britain will take it.
A National Federation of Music Clubs advisory group in Chicago aims to spark a national spiritual revival by music. Dean Edwards of New York heads the panel, tied to worship efforts of the Federal Council of Churches. The plan includes state-wide hymn sings modeled on Indiana State Fair success with 6000 participants and a hymn of the month program.
Nashville councilman Pat Doyle seeks to close Nashville theaters from 7 to 9 pm on Sundays to back the See You in Church Sunday campaign. He would ban bank night and form a new movie censorship board, arguing churches lose members to Sunday screenings.
Twenty six Hartford area ministers voiced protest against universal military training and sent a resolution to Connecticut congressional leaders in Washington. Some may favor a modified UMT with civilian control, but all oppose the plan citing suspension of civil rights and excessive presidential power over Congress.
A state sponsored bond drive will be launched in Paris for the French Federation of War Destituted Churches and Religious Buildings to speed reconstruction. Bond schemes raise funds by subscribers who are repaid with interest after years, with several towns having benefited and the effort turning to churches.
Dr Roswell B Barries associate general secretary of the Federal Council of Churches spoke in St Paul at Macalester Church urging Christian citizenship as essential for sound democracy. He argued secularism alone risks decline while proposing teaching religion as cultural content in schools without sectarian conflict and noted ideological U.S. Russia contrasts in Trieste and UN policy as defensive moves.
Rome reports War Relief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference shows U S Catholic aid to Italy totals 58 million pounds through early 1945. Since October 1944, about 10 million people and hundreds of thousands more displaced have benefited.
The Church Federation of Indianapolis urged admission of not less than 200000 displaced persons to the United States. It urged including postwar uprootees and opposing a Wiley Bill provision that 50 percent come from annexed countries. The federation called for an empowered commission to coordinate DP selection transport and settlement.
Heasters for Relief an interdenominational agency will send 200 goats to Japan between now and September. About 1000 helpers will be sent to Europe. Appeals have come from Korea Malta China and India and $5000 has been contributed to buy goats for Austria and Switzerland. Japan goats ship via West Coast offices heifers to Europe via New Windsor Maryland.
Thirty five members of the Methodist Council of Bishops met in Asante City for pre general conference discussions. The principal matter before the council was drafting an episcopal address to be delivered by Bishop G Bromley Oxnam of New York. The general conference opens in Boston on April 28.
The British Council of Churches at its spring meeting in London voted to study the educational social and moral implications of the National Service Act amid war age concerns. The Youth Department report urged informed choice and national service or rejection on conscience, drawing mixed responses from Quakers Anglican leaders and others.
In St Louis Maine church groups won the first round to keep released time religious education in public schools. The Board of Education voted 11 to 1 to extend the program through June defying the superintendent and Instruction Committee.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church announced from Takoma Park Md that 345 missionaries were sent to 73 countries in 1947 with 262 from North America. New appointees totaled 359 while others returned from furloughs or extended leaves due to unsettled field conditions. postings included teachers doctors nurses evangelists builders administrators and accountants.
The 110th annual New Hampshire Methodist Conference in Concord, with nearly 1000 delegates, approved the United Nations plan to partition Palestine. They urged the United States to reaffirm a Jewish homeland and warned against coercion in global affairs.
A Massachusetts church group reports 69.2 percent of Congregational Christian churches in the state favor merging with the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Of 601 churches, 245 voted yes and 168 opposed. The outcome could influence the three-fourths approval needed for merger.
Dr. Stanley L Stuber of the Northern Baptist Convention urged New York clergy to send “missionary statesmen” to combat war causes and promote a social gospel rooted in Christ. He pressed churches to back civil rights reform, end race hatred, and spread Christian ideals from America to Asia and Africa.
A Montreal council of Christians and Jews is planned to form soon and affiliate with the Canadian Council. Forty Prominent Protestant Catholic and Jewish laymen and clergy heard Dr. Everett R. Clinchy outline the movement. Richard D. Jones directs the Canadian Council and other councils are already planned in Toronto Guelph Ottawa Winnipeg and London.
A Troy Methodist Conference resolution urges the General Conference to appoint a commission to explore possible merger with the Protestant Episcopal Church. Bishop G Bromley Oxnam of New York said leaders of both churches had informally discussed the issue in Cincinnati ahead of the conference in Boston opening April 27.
Kentucky Baptist Women's Mission Union at its state convention urged President Truman to designate a national day of prayer amid the international agitation. Crescent Hill Baptist Church of Louisville proposed the resolution, which the convention adopted in full.
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