Week End Editorial Redwood Cathedral
A spiritual meditation on the giant Red wood groves as nature’s temples. The piece compares Redwood groves to grand cathedrals, noting their humility, reverence, and divine presence. It cites biblical allusions about seeds, light, and growth, urging readers to slow, gaze, and grow in grace while recognizing the grove as a call to worship.
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St. Peters
Rome
Cathedral
Cologne
St. Paul's
London
Jesus
Kingdom of Heaven
Earth
Jesus Christ
Redwood
Labor relations shaped by sacred human life and labor law
The piece argues that labor relations arise from human relations grounded in the sacredness of personality. It cites Labor Day amid debate on a federal labor law, noting rights claimed by managers, suppliers, consumers, and workers while urging the larger Right taught by holy doctrine as the true guide.
A Mother's Creed by Mrs Guy F Rogers declares faith in mothers' daily work
Mrs Guy F Rogers California Federation of Women's Clubs state chairman writes in Federation News that mothers shape America through cleaning baking sewing and nurturing. She envisions bringing order beauty and courage to home life and teaches children that love faith and daily duty guard the nation.
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Guy F. Rogers
American Home
California Federation of Women’s Clubs
Federation News
California
America
Interfaith councils urged in postwar Germany
General Clay invites National Conference of Christians and Jews to help form interfaith councils for Protestants Catholics and Jews in American occupation zones of Germany. Dr Everett R Clinchy says plan aims to re educate Germans in group relations and democratic citizenship with support from AMG and displaced persons camps.
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National Conference of Christians and Jews
Good Will Councile
Germany
Everett R. Clinchy
Interfaith Organization
Bue Tope
Europe
New International Council
Seellabarg
Switzerland
Dy. iClinchy
Lucius D. Clay
Berlin
Willard Goslin
Minneapolis
Minn
Clinchy
Clay
A.M.G
D.p.s
Charles Evans
Hughes
Oft
National Conference
Arthur H. Compton
St. Louis
Roger W. Straus
New York
Thomas. E. Braniff
Dallas
Interfac
Paris
Brussels
Copenhagen
Geneva
Rome
Athens
Prague
Belgrade
Bucharest
International Council of Christians and Jews
Dr. Clinchy
America
Goslin
Jts
Dr. Gonlin
Scel Isberg
U.N.E.S.C.0
Puerto Ricans Immigration Plan Urges National Resettlement Effort
Dr. Mark Dawber of the Home Missions Council warns that Puerto Rican immigration to New York City could spark a new minority problem without a national resettlement program. He advocates government backed planning, school based training, and church community services to ease integration and prevent ghettos. He cites potential Congress action and stresses federal cooperation with private groups to handle large scale resettlement while preserving social order.
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New York
Mark Ay Dawher
Home Missions Council of North America
Iimera Lion
New York City
Dy. Dawber
U. S
America
United States
Dru Dawber
First
Spanish Evangelical Church
East
Harlem
Dawber
Puerto Rico
Ieee
Congress
Argenting
RNS
Sunday School Seen Quakers in South as Force in India
Sunday School leaders see India's independence bringing both opportunities and risks for Christian work. V M Koshy reports at a World Sunday School meeting in Birmingham that secular trends threaten Christian education, while youth and Sunday schools remain strong in Indian churches.
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South
India
V. M. Koshy
India Sunday School Union
World Council of World Sunday School Association
Birmingham
England
Koshy
Lutheran Educator Urges New Approach to Church and State
Br. Conrad J. Bergenhoff, president of Augustana College and Theological Seminary, urged bold Lutheran thinking to dispel ignorance and indifference toward politics. He spoke after returning from the Lutheran World Federation Assembly in Lund, Sweden, saying church state relations require scripture based reform and a clear statement of principles.
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Conrad J. Bergenhoff
Augustana College
Theological Seminary
Lutheran World Federation Assembly
Lund
Sweden
Luther
Bergendort
President Truman Names Rome Envoy Myron C Taylor
President Truman outlines the appointment of Myron C Taylor as his personal representative in Rome to discuss peace, a moral world order, and relief of human suffering. He will hold conversations with world leaders to gather views, aiming to guide the United States and gain cooperation in maintaining international peace and security after World War II.
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Truman
Myron C. Taylor
Rome
Myron C Taylor
Pope Pius XI
Taylor
Europe
United States
United Nations
European Christian Youth Conference Planned in Switzerland
Plans move forward for a European Christian Youth conference in Switzerland in October. Robert Tobias of the World Council of Churches announced in Geneva that 1100 church youths from 42 countries initiated the effort after meeting in Lund. Participants will survey youth problems, list needs, and draft mutual aid recommendations for nations including Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holland, and Italy.
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European Christian Youth- Treacerg
Switzerland
Tate
Geneva
Robert Tobias
Department of’ Reconstruction and Inter-Church
World Council’ of ‘Churches
Tobias
Lund
Sweden
Oslo
Norway
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Holland
France
Poland
Austria
Hungary
Italy
Balkans
Tobiae
Church World Service aid reaches Okinawa for first time
Church World Service shipments to Okinawa arrived and are being distributed per Rev Everett Thompson CWS director. A cable to the Interdenominational Agency notes 28141 pounds of clothing bedding and canned goods earmarked for needy leper orphans and dislocated persons. More cargoes aboard two ships are due soon. Okinawa becomes the thirtieth country served by American Protestant and Orthodox churches through CWS.
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Church World’ Service
Okinawa
Islamc
Everett Thompson
CWS
Interdenominational Agaicy
Thompson
Church World Service
Recognition of Old Synagogue as National Shrine in Newport
Touro Synagogue, oldest Jewish house of worship in the Western Hemisphere, will be inaugurated as a national shrine in Newport with ceremonies tomorrow. Speaker Hon. Joseph W. Martin of North Attlebora will address the gathering. The shrine honors the 1760 design by Peter Harrison and its historic role in Rhode Island governance and Jewish migration.
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Toure
Neweport
R. I
Holand
Isaac Touro
Newport
Holland
Jamaica
West Indies
Salvation of
Dr. McKelway Named Veterans Chaplain Service Chief
Chaplain A. McKelway, a Naval Air Force veteran of World Wars I and II, was announced as chief of the Veterans Administration Chaplaincy Service in Washington. He served in the Canal Zone and as a test pilot, led at the Pre-Flight School in Iowa, and earned eight battle stars aboard the USS Essex. He ended active duty December 1945 as a commander at Great Lakes Training Center, after three pastorates in North Carolina between wars.
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McKelway
Naval ‘Air Force
Veterans Administration Chaplaincy Service
Washington
Canal Zone
Naval Aviation
Towa-City
U. S. S. Essex
Pacific
Great Lakes ‘Training Center
Ninth, Naval District
Presbyterian Church
U.S
Southeen
North Caxfo Vina
Bonus for pastors in Peninsula Conference gifts
The Peninsula Delaware Conference of The Methodist Church distributed a $10,000 anonymous gift as a $40 bonus to each of 250 ministers. Rev. Hamilton P. Fox, Superintendent of the Wilmington District, announced the gift here.
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Peninsula
Delaware
The
Methodist Church
Hamilton P. Fox
Wilmington
Adventists Plan New Drive for Foreign Relief After 85 Million Aid
Seventh day Adventists announced an upcoming nationwide appeal on September 13 to fund further relief for war torn regions. D R Schierman noted the church already contributed 85 million in food and clothing, and warned Europe faces starvation and cold this winter without increased aid. He cited rapid overseas shipment since the war’s end and highlighted local relief by the Defease Society in Los Angeles, including a surplus sale that raised funds and thousands of food units distributed to hospitals and similar institutions.
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D. R. Schierman
Home
Churgh
Lynwood
Adventist Church
Schierman
Europe
United States
Defease Society
Women's Federation of the
Advertst
Southern California
Los Angeles
Peace and spiritual roots of lasting peace
In year three of the so called peace the text argues war does not deliver real peace. It asserts peace is mental and spiritual and cannot be achieved by political or economic change alone. Hope rests in Christian restraint and moral conduct, as echoed by Paul’s phrase about being spiritually minded.
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Jesus
Chris Vanity
Paul
Catholic Girls Aid European Families Initiative Launched
The Junior Catholic Daughters of America announced an international relations program after a week long retreat in Cleveland. Delegates from 25 states and 35 Roman Catholic dioceses will adopt European families support orphans with a sweets and sweaters drive and exchange letters with European youth leaders. The effort partners with War Relief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference led by Miss Bentrige M Hoffman and Mr Kisco N. to foster better bonds and understanding among Catholic youth.
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Catholic Daughters of America
Cleveland
Europe
Catholics Welfarn Conference
Bentrige M. Hoffman
Kisco
Union Talk Among Quakers Faces Legal Barriers
A Lake Minnetonka conference of the Society of Friends saw younger members urging reunion of Hicksite and Orthodox Quakers. Authors note historical splits centered on creed and the Inner Light, but warn that endowments and trust arrangements create legal obstacles to mergers, despite broad theological readiness.
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Mathew Arnold
Society of Friends
Lake Minnewaska
N. Y
Friends
Theology Sought at Imperial University
Dr. Shigeru Nambara urges establishment of chairs of Christian history and theology at the Imperial University. He says Japanese endowment is impossible and hopes American Christians provide support. Currently the university hosts Buddhist philosophy only.
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Imperial University
Shigeru Nambara
Nambara
Sunday school attendance rises in England and Wales
Robert J. Denholm of the National Sunday School Union of Haggland and Wales reports about 42 percent of children in England and Wales attend Sunday school, noting an upward trend in participation.
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Robert J. Denholm
National Sunday School Union of
Haggland and Wales
England
Wales
Two Worlds at a Time in Thoreau’s Thought
The piece reflects on Thoreau's bedside quip that one “one world at a time” is not enough. It argues a life requires balancing dreams and deeds faith and sight work and play knowledge and wisdom two worlds at the same time, with spiritual insight shaping the seen world.
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Henry D. ‘Thoreau
Thoreau
Jack
Earth
God
Kepler
St Paul
Job
Presbyterians Plan First Issue of New Magazine Life
The Presbyterian Church in the United States will publish Presbyterian Life, a 32 page weekly magazine to debut around January 1, 1948. It will feature church news, religious articles, sketches of leaders and editorials addressing current issues. The church reports over 88,000 subscriptions and a board sub committee is considering a publisher and editor.
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Presbyterian Life
Presbyterian Church
Department of Publicity
General Assembly
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Dr. McKelway
Veterans
Christian Science Monitor
the Churchman
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