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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1950
Page
4
Editorial argues national security should rest on faith and moral responsibility rather than arms and bombs. It cautions that increasing military buildup fuels fear, urging Americans to trust in God while actively pursuing a peaceful, just world through moral values and personal responsibility.
Noted sportsman Branch Rickey urged students to explore the positive before the negative in all ventures from daily life to politics. He framed choosing risk over caution as the path to growth and community good, citing religious teaching to seek first righteousness and allow necessities to follow.
A radio preacher last Sunday denounced Americans as unprincipled, arguing expediency overrides right in policy and urging moral revival through Bible teaching at home church and school. He warned the nation’s danger lies in citizen indifference to truth and right, not foreign threats, and invoked the poet prophet declaring that right remains right because God is God.
Officials of the Southern Baptist Convention reported 149 gains in the year, a record 334,862 conversions, and a 7.9 percent rise in Sunday School membership to 4,643,650. Total church membership reached 6,761,265 amid 27,286 churches, with church and parsonage property valued at $545,261,564 and a year of $178,504,778 collected from members at $26.40 per capita.
A four day National Study Conference on the Church and Economic Life opened February 16 at the Hotel Statler in Detroit. About 450 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox leaders from US and Canada, including business, labor, government, and professions, will craft Christian guidelines for economic issues and submit conclusions to churches for action.
Dr Dixon Wecer of UC argues for universal literacy and cultural exchange at Pomona College graduation. The piece highlights Edgar Johnson Goodspeed’s translations and a Protestant labor education movement linked to the Council of Churches, including labor schools in New York and Buffalo.
The General Council of Congregational Christian Churches met in Cleveland and postponed further steps after a Brooklyn supreme court ruling barred a merger with the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Justice Steinbrink entered judgment for Cedman Memorial Church, dismissing the Council's counterclaim and criticizing the Basis of Union as riddled with loopholes and inconsistencies.
Yale University Library gains 99 volumes of the Kagyur, sacred Sanskrit Buddhist writings, donated by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s 14-year-old ruler. C. Suydam Cutting of New York facilitated the gift after a Tibet visit, with Harvard as the other holder of this edition. The ruler’s letter to Cutting calls for the true teachings of Buddha to spread light over humanity.
Dr. Frederick M. Meek of Old South Church Boston told New York Congregational speakers that U S Protestants must be ready to confront a powerful state and decline any favors from it. He urged churches to set limits on state power as a safeguard of democracy.
The death of Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes ends a 42 year episcopate with the Methodist Church. He was a celebrated preacher and orator, known for humor and spiritual intensity, and authored religious works including an autobiography I Was Made a Minister. His influence shaped Methodist policy and he was famed for friendship and loyal family ties.
An arms race looms as President Truman urges the AEC to accelerate hydrogen bomb production. The initial weapons may be only modestly more destructive than A-bombs, but each side’s progress spurs the other toward ever greater devastation aiming at universal desolation per Genesis.
The House passed a bill shielding religious publications of a non profit nature from postal rate hikes. Publications for use in religious instruction or classrooms remain exempt, while almost all other mail faces higher rates, with first class mail unaffected. Exempt religious items keep a rate of 1 ½ cents per pound for transport nationwide, while regular commercial rates rise up to 12 cents per pound based on zone and ad volume.
The Federal Council of Churches will hold a national study conference in Detroit February 16–19 on the church and economic life. Delegates will examine preparatory documents, study the gospel’s application to management labor and capital, and publish and advocate informed judgments. The event aims to advance Christian mission in economic life, independent of business or labor federations.
R N states Christian mission forces in China and U S have a strong view supporting cautious government policy. Missionaries face danger, see European politics affecting Chinese Christians, yet urge maintaining contact with Chinese people to show friendship and possibly yield beneficial political outcomes. They warn of Chinese confidence loss in the Nationalist Government if patience and wisdom prevail.
Dr. D. Elton Trueblood of Earnham College, Richmond, Indiana, defined a Christian college as one where the atmosphere of Christian faith penetrates the entire institution and guides all decisions and values. He warned such colleges would be unpopular but would fight on the frontline in civilization’s battle.
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