Gypsy Smith Evangelist Dies at 87 in New York Harbor
World famous British evangelist Gypsy Smith died of a heart attack just before the Queen Mary reached New York. He traveled the world twice and served soldiers in World War I. Born in a gypsy tent, he joined the Salvation Army Mission and preached with plain, fiery conviction. His layperson style contrasted with sensational methods and he urged all to accept the Gospel. The church mourns a lifelong demonstrator of gospel power and spiritual fervor.
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Rodney Smith
Gypsy Smith
New York Port
United States
France
London
Salvation Army
William Booth
Billy Sunday
Moral Re Armament evaluated in Living Church review
The Living Church editor evaluates Moral Re-Armament, Buchmanism, and Oxford Group in a fair, candid essay. Dean Ralph Higgins of St. Mark's Cathedral, Grand Rapids, cites strengths and weaknesses, notes no secret factors beyond Christian teaching, and concludes MRA is no substitute for the Church.
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Organ of the Episcopal Church
M.R. A
Buchmanism
Oxford Group
Dean Ralph Higgins
St. Mark's Cathedral
Grand Rapids
Dean Higgins
M.A.A
M.A. A
Christian Church
Church
Evening Shadows and the Psalm Beneath the Sunset
The piece describes a noon heat fading into late afternoon shadows as leaves stir and a gentle breeze cools the land. It frames a biblical invocation about abiding with the faithful as evening deepens and the western horizon glows with the setting sun.
Marching Orders from Dr Visser 't Hooft at Oslo Youth Confab
Dr Visser 't Hooft of the World Council of Churches told the Oslo World Youth Conference that God will provide guiding direction not panaceas. He urged a fellowship driven effort toward righteousness with clear next steps for action.
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Visser ‘T Hooft
World Council of Churches
Oslo
Seeing God as an election and a childlike image
Lecomte du Nouy argues in Human Destiny that efforts to visualize God reveal childishness and that disbelief often stems from an inability to picture Him. He notes this inability does not prove nonexistence, likening it to belief in the electron.
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God
Lecomte DU Nouy
Religious Freedom Drive at Baptist World Meeting
The Baptist World Alliance near Copenhagen concluded its seventh congress with a manifesto urging faiths’ freedom and equality, support for the United Nations, and asylum for displaced D.P.s. Delegates from 50 countries elected Oscar Johnson president, with next world congress planned for 1950 outside Europe. Separate Oslo youth talks proposed a World Christian Youth Commission and urged harbors for displaced Jews amid global tensions.
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Ite Baptist
World Alliance
Copenhagen
United Nations
Europe
Alliance
Palestine
Oscar Johnson
St. Louis
Southern Baptist Convention
James H. Rush- Stocke
London
England
W. ©. Lewis
Washington, D.C
Oslo
Norway
Christian Woald
World Christian Youth Commission
Oslo Siisions
Council of, Churches
Church Nouth
Churchman Afield urges action for peace among youth
T Z Koo of Princeton told Christians at Buffalo that many youths are indifferent to peace. He urged a militant, practical peace making rooted in understanding between races and cooperation beyond treaties. Dr Paul C Payne warned the unchurched child toll and church lethargy threaten America’s future.
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T. Z Koo
Princeton
N. J
Churches of Christ
Uil- Tiples
Buffalo
N. X
Kee
World Caimeil of Churches
Ciil
Gren
U. S
United Nations
State of Churches Since War Surveyed
First world wide survey on Protestant and Orthodox charges since the war is published as Christianity Today. Sponsored by the American Committee for the World Council of Churches. It notes secularization as a greater danger to American Protestants than threats to liberties. Russia reports include reduced anti religious propaganda and a suspended militant atheist league. Orthodox gains legal status amid lingering religious repression.
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Committee For the World Council, of Churches
Henry Smith Leiper
Leiper
Waller M.horton
Oberlin School of Theology
Horton
Russia
N.S. Tlranshoft
Fordham University
League of Militant Atheists
Timasheff
Gandhi on Missionaries in India
Mahatma Gandhi at a Rawalpindi meeting said Christian missionaries would be free to stay in an independent India and that Indian Christians could hold high official posts. He added non Christians may convert per Constituent Assembly rules, urging peace and unity among Christians.
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India
Mahatma Gandhi
Dtryer
Rawalpindi
Gandhi
Indian Constituent Assembly
Christ
Courage in North Carolina Lynching Case Governer Confronts Mob
North Carolina Governor Cherry denounces the grand jury in a May 24 lynching attempt, vows to convene a Superior Court to hear evidence and move to try those charged in another county. He defends the victim and condemns mob justice despite community sentiment.
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Zond
North Carolina
Cherry
Nno
Cormit
Heroic Father Roth A model of moral courage in Germany
Time chronicles Father Leonard Roth a German Dominican who opposed Nazism from the start. After Dachau he refused to abandon inmates, ministering to 5000 survivors and war criminals alike. He built hope through Catholic services in a SS prisoners church and urged ethical reform over ideological hatred.
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Germany
Leonard Roth
Father Roth
Switzerland
Dachau
U. Is
Miniater
Roth
Presbyterian Life Magazine Announced by Presbyterian Church
A new weekly magazine named Presbyterian Life will publish 32 pages and begin circulation near January 1, 1948. Officials at the Witherspoon Building Philadelphia say it will cover church news, notable church life, reader sketches, inspirational and devotional pieces, editorials on day’s issues, and information from church boards and agencies including the Restoration Fund and benevolence campaigns.
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Presbyterian Life
Presbyterian Ilife
Presbyterian Church
U.S. A
Witherspoon
Philadelphia
Cata
New Life Movement
Einstein's Message To Quaker Meeting
Albert Einstein in a letter to the 260th North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends warned that a new world war would devastate both sides. He said the East West gulf is widening and an atomic war would bring not victory but total death and destruction unless people act on the belief that all men are brothers. He urged decisive action to influence history.
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Albert Einstein
North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends
Rysalana
Loss to Ching Colleges Hits $15 Million
A survey estimates eleven of thirteen Christian colleges in China, run by American and British missionary societies, were seized by Japanese forces or collaborators during World War II. The damage includes razed buildings looted facilities and missing furniture and equipment, totaling at least 15 million dollars to repair and restore educational use.
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China
iInsig
Lutheran World Action Aims Ten Million Donation Goal
Paul C. Empie national director announces Lutheran World Action aims to raise 10 million dollars for 1046-47 campaign. By August 1, 1,060,554 has been contributed toward the goal.
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Lutheran World Action
Paul C. Empie
Church Leaders Condemn Terrorism in Palestine
Britain's top Anglican and Roman Catholic leaders join Free Church authorities in a statement by the British Council of Christians and Jews condemning terrorist outrages in Palestine. Signers include Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher and Cardinal Bernard Griffin. The group denounces the murder of two British army sergeants and urges restraint to avoid harming the Jewish community in Britain.
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Britain
British Council of Christians and Jews
Palestine
Geoffrey Francis Fisher
Canterbury
Bernard Cardinal Griffin
Westminster
Frank Hewett Ballard
Free Church Federal Council
Movies Face the Facts
Mary Hornaday reports that Crossfire is a melodrama promoting democracy over anti Semitism. Eric Johnston, head of the MPPA, discusses a new government backed policy guiding American films to portray the American way of life and global responsibility. Hollywood aims to show democracy as the best form of government for art and thought.
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Mary Hornaday
Christian Science Monitor
Eric Johnston
Motion Picture Producers Association
RKO
86Th Street
Yorkville
New York
Hill Street
Los Angeles
Kripa
Johnston
America
Hollywood
Judd says U S failed China at world convention
Walter B. Judd Republican congressman from Minnesota told the World Convention of Churches of Christ Disciples in Buffalo New York that the United States and Russia abandoned China after it helped them in World War II He argued China might have fared better had it been our enemy and urged Christian churches to uphold honesty and mission in aiding China amid wartime and postwar upheaval He noted China’s suffering from war and disrupted political and economic systems.
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Walter B. Judd
Minnesota
Churches of Christ Disciples
Buffalo
N.Y
U. S
Russia
China
Connery
Japan
Russia Advance Editorial on the Russian People and War Danger
The piece argues Russians are not stupid and seek no war with the United States. It notes Russia has faced punishment after victory and suggests most observers see no imminent danger of war within ten years. Fearful headlines and nervous dreams fuel the current scare.
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Russia
Josef Stalin
Ruscia
Gromyko
United States
Department Store Puts Minister on Payroll
The Birmingham Alabama department store hires Dr Henry M Edmonds as chaplain and counselor to 1250 employees. He will work two days a week in store offices and spend remaining time engaging welfare services and community institutions.
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Birmingham
South
Henry M. Edmonds
Edmonds
Anthony Monteiro
Newark
N. J
Bloomfield, N. S. Theological Seminary
Montlelre
Monteiro
New Jersey
Church Leaders Warn Democracy Needs Free Institutions
Dr Edwin McNeil Potext of Cédigate-Rochester Divinity School urged the World Convention of Churches of Christ to defend democracy by defending free institutions. He called for a free press, free labor, free economy, free education, and a free ballot while warning against education subservience to the state and wartime excess. He argued churches must push for liberty beyond their own realm and resist threats to voting rights and organized liberty worldwide.
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Edwin McNeil Potext
Cédigate-Rochester Divinity School
Bulfito
World Convention of Churches of
Dr. Petont
United States Army
Meir
Angel
Congress
Glving
Poleat
Russia
Roger Williams
Mirror of Opinion on Martha Ellen Truman and her son
Martha Ellen Truman lived a long life shaped by Civil War era Missouri turmoil. She spoke of Harry Truman with pride and humor while resisting fame’s fuss and feathers. Her devotion to family and her son’s service touched the nation as he cared for her in her final days. Her enduring influence echoed from the White House to her rural roots and history.
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Martna Ellen Truman
Missouri
Harry
Mr. Truman
Jim Lane
Raiders
White House
Church Shines On His Return From World Tour
Henry Steeane Coffin former Union Seminary president returns from travel with optimistic view of the Christian church across China Philippines Bums India and Egypt. He notes Protestant mission churches abroad remain resilient despite global disillusionment and sees the church as the hoped engine of future spiritual revival.
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Henry Steeane Coffin
Union Seminary
China
Philippines
Bums
India
Egypt
Man Bites Dog and the Christian Nation
A religiously inflected opinion notes Ethiopia declines U.N. aid, prioritizing nations in greater need. It cites the New York Times front page coverage and frames the UN action as an act of Christian neighborliness, contrasting fear with selfless decency.
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New York Times
Ethiopia
U.N
Times
Lake Success
Evhlopia
Eld
Jesus
Paul
United Nations
Refugee Bill Shelved amid Congressional Rush to Adjourn
Hearings on the Stratton Bill to admit 160,000 refugees a year for four years were closed and the measure sidelined as Congress rushed to adjourn. Critics blame dilatory committee tactics for killing the bill, raising questions about Congress competence and representation amid pressure from occupation forces and citizens groups.
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Christian Dempey
United States
Germany
Elitss
Bosley Named Dean of Duke School of Religion
Dr Harold Bosley pastor of Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church in Baltimore has been appointed dean of Duke University School of Religion in Durham North Carolina.
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Harold Bosley
Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church
Baltimore
School of Religion
Duke University
Durham
N.C
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