Week End Editorial The Mummy in Rockefeller Center Window
A Peru excavated mummy, 3000 years old, is displayed in Rockefeller Center. The piece reflects on ancient Peru social order, agriculture, crafts, and religion, contrasts it with modern urban life, technology, and the quest for happiness and freedom, and notes modern humanity's inhumanities.
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Peru
United States
Fifth Avenue
Rockefeller Center
New York
Nehru
America
MWC
Prayer for United Nations Ends in World Government Plea
Henry Hitt Crane of Central Methodist Church Detroit leads a prayer urging openness to global harmony and universal brotherhood. He asks for sight beyond parochialism to back full participation in the United Nations and to seek a World Federal Government if it is God’s will.
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Jess
House of Non-Cooperation
United Nations
Henry Hitt Crane
Central Methodist Church
Detroit
Youth Groups Plan Evangelistic Programs in Europe 1950
European delegates from nine countries met near Geneva under the World Council of Churches Youth Department to plan evangelistic and other programs for homeless youths and refugees. They stressed self-help inter church aid, and discussed ecumenical work camps and mobilizing Christian youth to aid displaced persons. Plans urged detailed at Landskrona conference in April 1950 and evangelistic methods for industrial youths in Bierre, France, in February.
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Presinge
Geneva
World Council of Churches Youth Department
Austria
Belgium
Finland
France
Germany
Great Britain
Helland
Italy
Norway
Tullio Vinay
Agape
Italian Alps
Turin
Waldensian Church
Spain
Landskrona
Villach
Bierre
Vital Role for Asian Churches Highlighted
Messages from the World Council of Churches at the Bangkok East Asian Churches conference stress rapid growth of churches in Eastern Asia and call for full integration with the World Council. The Youth Department urges spreading the Gospel into every aspect of life across Asia amid changing political conditions.
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World Council of Churches
Conference of East Asian Churches
Bangkok
Siam
World Council
Central Committee
Chichester
England
Council
Jesus Christ
Asia
Former rodeo star becomes Free Methodist missionary
Edward Skudler a Nebraska ranch native and former bronco-buster who also served as Gen Douglas MacArthur’s bodyguard in Japan will return there as a Free Methodist missionary. He studies at Pacific College Seattle and joins Jacob DeShaver as the second American to go to Japan as a missionary. DeShaver who was a prisoner of war is now in Tokyo.
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Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Free Methodist Church
Edward Skudler
Pacific College
Seattle
Wash
Skudler
Nebraska
Jacob DeShaver
DeShaver
Tokyo
Evangelism Drive Sets New Standard
The 15 month United Evangelistic Advance led by Prof E G Hemrig hausen of Princeton Theological Seminary is praised as setting a standard for cooperative evangelism. The effort is backed by 87 denominations with 33 million members and has earned a pledge of cooperation from the North Carolina State Convention of Southern Baptists. In two months the drive logged 13 preaching missions in cities, 24 on college campuses, and 12 national teaching missions. Interdenominational services on Reformation Sunday nearly doubled from 66 to 121 this year.
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E. G. Hemrighausen
Princeton Theological Seminary
Hemrighausen
National Committee of the Advance
New York
Jesse M. Bader
Evangelism Department
Federal Council of Churches
North Carolina State Convention of Southern Baptists
Bader
Extend Deadline for Feed Drive
CHURCHMAN AFIELD reports January 15 as the new deadline for the nationwide feed drive of the Christian Rural Overseas Program. Campaign heads in 38 states were urged to canvass every agricultural county, aiming to aid the hungry abroad as 10,000,000 homeless families in Germany and Austria still need essentials. The drive, sponsored by Church World Service, the National Catholic Rural Life Conference, and Luther World Relief, emphasizes continued giving until peace and self-sufficiency return.
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Christian Rural Overseas Program
C.R.O.P
Europe
M. R. Zigler
Germany
Austria
Christ
Church World Service
National Catholic Rural Life Conference
Luther World Helef
Delaware Form D P Assistance Council Named
Gov Elbert N Carvel appoints a 19 member Displaced Persons Committee for Delaware with Wilbert B Smith as chairman. The panel includes Jews Catholics and Protestants and will produce DPI orientation literature and assist sponsors with assimilation while advising other DPI agencies. Church leaders on the committee include C A Vincent-Daviss Dr Hamilton P Fox and Rev Joseph F Delikat.
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Wilmington
Del
Smith
D.p.s
D.P
C. A. Vincent-Daviss
Welfare program limits should stay for public schools
Dr Harrison S Elliott of Union Theological Seminary urged that transportation health and school lunch services should be shared broadly while preserving public funds for public school children. He warned that extending aid to church and private schools could create a divisive US situation unlike Britain with a homogeneous population.
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Harrison S. Elliott
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Methodist Conference On Christian Education
Elliott
America
Britain
United States
Hereditary Office Restored by King Abdullah
The hereditary door keeper role of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, long held by a Mostem, has been restored by King Abdullah of Jordan after the dome fire was extinguished. The Moslem custodian will focus on preventive measures to safeguard worshipers from fire and other accidents.
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Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Jerusalem
Mostem
Abdullah of
Jordan
World Alliance urges religion to heal world tensions
President Truman addressed the Columbus conference urging religious forces to guide U S foreign policy and bolster United Nations support. Leaders from the World Alliance for International Friendship Through Religion called for peaceful understanding, brotherhood, and action to reduce prejudice against minorities across nations and regions.
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Truman
World Alliance For International Friendship Through Religion
Columbus
United States
Walter D. Head
New York
Alliance
Church Peace Union
American Association For the United Nations
Brotherhood of Man
World Alliance
Jane Evans
Cincinnat
National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods
America
Southwest
C. E. Wilcox
Toronto
Canada
The
Church trustees plan suit to block Iowa church merger
Trustees and deacons of First Congregational Church in Dubuque Iowa authorize a civic suit to halt the merger of the Iowa Conference of Congregational Christian Churches with the Iowa Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. The resolution aims to prevent transfer of funds or property to the new entity and prevent operation by the Congregational Christian Conference of Iowa and the Iowa Home Missionary Society. The merger was nationally approved last February, and First Congregational has opposed it while nearby Immanuel and Summit have supported it.
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First Congregational Church
Dubuque
Iowa Conference of Congregational Christian Churches
Iowa Synod of the
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Boards of
Trustees
Congregational Christian Conference of Iowa
Iowa Home Missionary Society
First Congregational Church of
General Council of the
Congregational Christian Churches
Immanuel and
Summit
Retiring Pastor Pays Tribute to Flock
In New York Dr John Haynes Holmes retired after 42 years as pastor of Community Church and preached his farewell sermon. He handed the post to Donald Harrington, 34, saying he surrenders his most precious possession the congregation. Holmes praised the flock for brotherhood across nationalities and classes as 1000 celebrants rose in tribute.
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New York
John Haynes Holmes
Community Church
Donald Harrington
Lutheran-Evangelical Merger to Be Offered
A plan to merge the American Lutheran Church Evangelical Lutheran Church and United Evangelical Lutheran Church will be placed before the 1950 national conventions. A joint union committee in Chicago proposes a 27 member body to study doctrine and church life with results shared at the 1962 conventions while boards align activities and lay groups meet to foster understanding.
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American Lutheran Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church
United Evangelical Lutheran Church
Chicago
Missions by Mail for Refugees Planned in Bridgeport
A new Missions by Mail program to boost spiritual morale of Hungarian refugees was launched in Bridgeport Connecticut by Connecticut Evangelical and Reformed clergy. Dr Alexander Toth suggested the project. A denomination fund will buy religious pamphlets medicine and prayer books to send abroad. Bela Szighetny will administer the fund after arriving from Europe.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Connecticut
Evangelical and Reformed
Alexander Toth
Lancaster
Board of
National Missions of the
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Bela Szighetny
U.S
Germany
France
First of Religious Film Series Made You Can Change the World
The You Can Change the World film, first of a 40 motion picture series by The Christophers, was shot at Hal Roach Studios in Hollywood with stars giving free service. Cast includes Jack Benny Loretta Young William Holden Paul Douglas Bob Hope Irene Dunne Rochester Ann Blythe directed by Leo McCarey. Father James Keller MAL founded The Christophers features in the film. Each installment aims to show how ordinary people can influence education communications government and labor management for the common good.
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Christophers
Hal Roach
Hallywood
Jack Benny
Loretta Young
William Holden
Paul Douglas
Bob Hope
Irene Dunne
Rochester
Ann Blythe
Leo McCarey
Father James Keller
Mal
The
Father Keller
Ministers Pull Own Illicit Liquor Raid
Four Okemah ministers tired of being the courthouse joke led a raid with Under-sheriff Lee Carter seizing 255 bottles of whisky at a western Okemah filling station. The group filled three automobiles with the haul, with pastors Rev E R Goff Rev Harry Summers Rev Orville Coates and Rev K D Byers coordinating the effort at the Okfuskee county station.
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Okemah
Okla
Oklahoma
Lee Carter
Okfuskee County
R. Goff
Calvary Baptist Church
Harry Summers
First Presbyterian
Orville Coates
St. Luke's Methodist
K. D. Byers
Church of God
Anti Alcoholism Campaign Planned Across State Churches
A statewide drive against alcoholism will be conducted next year by 700 South Carolina Methodist Churches. The campaign will include the observance of Temperance Week in February 1926 with special programs dramatic productions and sermons to present the temperance problem to Methodists. Church members will be asked to sign pledges during Temperance Week.
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South Carolina
Religion Support Drive Successful Across United Communities
The Religion in American Life campaign ran from November through the 24th, engaging churches and synagogues in 450 communities. Officials report 12 to 35 percent rises in attendance and giving, with notable boosts in Danvers Massachusetts and Petersburg Virginia, and multiple cooperative drives across regions.
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United States
New York
Earl B. Pleasant
United Church
Pleasant
Federal Council of Churches
Synagogue Council of America
Danvers
Mass
Petersburg
North Shore
Episcopal Bishop Seeks Jeep for Brazilian Mission
The Rt Rev Louis C Melcher spoke in New Orleans at the Advent service and described hardship faced by Brazilian clergy. He said a jeep is needed to reach remote congregations where a rector’s wife struggles to draw water and health concerns keep the pastor away in the field.
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Episcopal Church
Brazil
Louis C. Melcher
New Orleans
Christ Church Cathedral
Melcher
May Use Building Fund for Chapels in Richmond
Baptist pastor Dr. T Rupert Coleman urged Ginter Park Baptist Church in Richmond Virginia to drop a $150000 church addition plan and instead fund chapels in unchurched areas. The plan, to be discussed in forums over two to three months, would have services and Sunday school in shifts. The deacons noted broad support for reallocating the funds to establish new chapels.
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Richmond
T Rupert Coleman
Ginter Park
Board of Deacons
Coleman
Church of Finland in Strong Position Amid Foreign Aid
Financial support from American church groups strengthens the Church of Finland. A $1,000,000 gift from Lutheran churches via the National Lutheran Council is partly allocated to reconstruct sixteen war destroyed churches. Funds also back a new Bible center at Pieksämäki, to publish religious books and Bibles. The Michael Agricola House will honor the Finnish reformer and will house mission work in Turku, with support from the Finnish Bible Society, the local diocese, and the Finnish Mission Society.
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Church of Finland Tetay
Lutheran Churches In America
National Lutheran Council
Karelia
Russia
Piekssmiaki
American Bible Society
Finnish Bible Society
Turku
Finnish Mission Society
Michael Agricola
Korea Appeals for Church Relief
South Chujia Province Governor appeals to Church World Service for clothing and supplies for victims of Communist raids. He cites 50 000 homes destroyed and over 300 000 homeless, with raids averaging four daily. Church activities in mountainous areas hindered, churches turned, workers killed, missionaries hesitant to enter villages, and relocations to larger towns underway.
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Church World Service
South
Chujia
Korea
Seoul
C.W.S
Onan
Bedside Manner urged for pastors at Richmond conference
Dr. Theodore F. Adams of First Baptist Church in Richmond urges pastors to develop a bedside manner like physicians. Speaking during a three day pastoral ministry conference he notes visits aid both patient recovery and pastor’s spirit, citing 80 to 100 calls monthly and inspiration drawn from shut-ins.
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Theodore F. Adams
First Baptist Church
Richmond
the. Adams
Adams
Mass Evangelism Campaign Opens in Philadelphia
One thousand Methodist clergymen from 48 states attend the opening of a major Protestant mass evangelism program in Philadelphia. The four year Advance for Christ and His Church aims to combat secularism and indifference as Bishop Fred P. Corson urged ministers to reach unchurched neighbors in the greater city area, noting nearly 2,000,000 people do not attend church.
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Philadelphia
Christ
Fred P. Carson
Corson
Hollywood Church Television Hangout Draws Crowds
At the First Presbyterian Church in Hollywood pastor Dr Louis Havans has installed a king sized TV in a room named the Tele Hangout. Saturday afternoon football games draw large crowds and the SR0 sign is always up.
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Hollywood
First Presbyterian Church
Louis Havans
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