Week End Editorial on National Family Week and Moral Duty
The piece argues that National Family Week spotlights the family as civilization’s core, linking home life to youth behavior, religious literacy, and societal health. It warns against parental indifference, juvenile delinquency, and the rise of communism, urging families to strengthen character training and religious practice. Mother's Day is highlighted as a fitting climax.
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Sevral
Ioyairy
America
Millikan Sees Alcohol as Harmful to Education
World famed physicist Dr. Robert A. Millikan told Southern California students at Caltech that alcohol harms education and health. He cited 1947 US spending on liquor versus schools, arguing drinking slows reactions and even one beer can cause driving accidents.
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Robert A. Millikan
Southern California
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Dr. Millikan
United States
U.S. Department of Commerce
Emancipation Verse by Matthie D. Babcock and William W. Sweet
The text preserves verses praising courage and faith in death and eternity. It quotes Matthie D. Babcock and William W. Sweet, presenting a ministerial, hopeful voice urging resilience and the triumph over fear through death as a passage to life beyond. The lines emphasize meeting loved ones again, waking beyond the skies, and the deathless life beyond strife.
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Matthie D. Babcock
William W. Sweet
Perkins Divinity School
Dallas
Tex
Church Urges Moral Concepts in United Nations
At a United Nations symposium, John Foster Dulles urged churches to promote a worldwide sense of right and wrong and to apply moral judgments to nations’ conduct. He warned the UN cannot enforce decisions for fear of war and urged a focus on higher loyalties over State allegiance to foster justice, liberty, and peace.
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United Nations
John Foster Dulles
Mr. Dulles
United States
Department of International Justice
Federal Council of Churches
Dulles
Tme
Courd Not Party
W. A. Visser “T Hook
World Council of Churches
Hungary
Visser 'T Hooft
World Council
Amsterdam
Felktion
Arnold J. Toynbee
Episcopal Church Faces Clergy Shortage Despite Growth
The Episcopal Church reports a 130 percent enrollment rise since 1900 but a shortage of ministers. Active ministers grew by 7 percent though training facilities lag. The Virginia Theological Seminary and others face high applicant volumes, with Virginia Seminary planning to accept only 40 percent of applicants this year.
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Episcopal Church
Virgina Theological Seminary
Episcspal Theological Seminaries
Zyven
Vitemnia Theological Seminary
Missionaries Sit Tight as China War Winds Blow
As Nanking falls to Communist forces the fate of Christian missions in China becomes a hot topic in religious circles. About 50 Protestants stay in Nanking with 20,001 troops in occupation while Shanghai remains the headquarters for many mission groups. Churches plan cooperation for a better social order under uncertain freedom.
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China
Nanking
Shanghai
Episcopalians Set 1950 Budget Total of 5.55 Million
National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church voted a 1950 budget of 5,552,095 dollars, up from 3,550,000 in 1949. The budget, pending General Convention approval in San Francisco next fall, includes increased homeland and overseas spending and funds for Christian education and the American Church Institute for Negroes.
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National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church
San Francisco
American Church Institute For
Survey of Methodist Church in Chicago Progress
A commission appointed by the last General Conference to survey the denomination met in Chicago to hear preliminary reports from George Fry and Associates. The four year study assesses programs and policies of general boards and service agencies to improve spiritual ministry, reduce duplication, and achieve economies in management. Bishop J Ralph Magee of Chicago leads the commission with two clergymen and two laymen representing six jurisdictions.
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Chicago
General Conference
Methodist Church
George Fry
Aurvey Commission
J. Ralph Magee
Adventist Missionaries Deploy 267 Overseas in 1948
The Seventieth Adventist Church reports 267 missionaries sent abroad in 1948 with 166 returning from furlough. The General Conference allocated 5,731,024 of its 1949 budget for overseas work from a total 13,446,801.
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Seventhiay Adventist Church
Denominations
General Conference
Congregational Church Challenges Denomination on Merger
Cadman Memorial Congregational Society of Brooklyn petitions Brooklyn Supreme Court to stop the General Council from merging with the Evangelical and Reformed Church. The move follows a February vote at Cleveland authorizing a plan to form the United Church of Christ with about 2,000,000 members.
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Christian Churches
General Council
Cadman Memorial Congregational Society of
Brookyn
Cadman Memorial Church
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Nice
General Council of
The
Congregational Christian Churches
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Committee For the
Protestants Increase Church Gifts in 1948
Protestant denominations report total gifts of 830,915,228 in 1948, up from 756,128,123 in 1947, based on 52 denominations and 26 major groups. The average giver contributed 23.71, while local church upkeep rose and foreign missions saw little gain.
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United Stewardship Council
Presbyterians Approve Adult Christian Education Course
The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America approved a new adult Christian education course at its Board of Christian Education annual meeting. The curriculum, launching in October 1998, aims to unite church and home. The report notes over 1500 candidates for ministry under care of presbyteries, the highest in five years, and estimates 400 new ministers needed annually to fill pulpit vacancies.
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Board of Christian Education
The
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
Vermont Churchmen Halt Slot Machine Bill
Vermont House defeated a slot machine bill 146 to 72 halting proposed gambling at fraternal and veterans clubs. The measure faced strong opposition from the Vermont Church Council which urged staunch enforcement against the policy and claimed it would mandate law enforcement action to remove gambling, reflecting a broad church-backed stance.
Peiping Churches to Open Soap Factory Plan
A London Missionary Society official says Peiping churches will run a soap factory if Communists demand clergymen focus only on community tasks. He notes well attended services in Tientsin but uncertainty over ministers’ ability to devote exclusively to religious work.
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Peiping
London Missionary Society
Feiping
China
Tientsin
Protestant Wins $15000 First Prize in Christophers Contest
George Howe a Protestant of Washington DC won the $15000 first prize in The Christophers national writing contest for a wartime novel titled Call It Treason. Rosemary Casey of Pittsburgh won $5000 top prize in The Christophers drama competition. The prize fund totaled £40000 from many small contributions.
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George Howe
Washington, D. C
The
Christophers
Howe
Rosemary Casey
Pitts ‘Burgh
Father Keller
America
Myles Connolly
Clare Booth Luce
Fulton Oureler
Reader's Digest
Mary O'Hara
John S. Kennedy
Catholic Transcript
Episcopalians urged to unity at home before talks with others
In Boston 200 delegates to the Protestant Episcopal Church Congress heard Dr Bernard Bell urge unity within the Anglican church before pursuing mergers with Presbyterians or Methodists. He called a restatement of basic beliefs, an end to disunity, and a study of core texts to strengthen internal ties.
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Boston
Bernard Iddings Bell
Chicago
Bell
Protestant Episcopal Church Congress
Belt
Nus
Israel's Chief Rabbi Visiting New York Tour
Israel's Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Herzog arrived in New York saying Israel may curb immigration if housing problems are not solved. He spoke at the invitation of Henry Morgenthau III, chairing a United Jewish Appeal drive for 250 million dollars, and will participate actively to urge American Jewry to aid Israel's absorption of new arrivals.
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New York
Isaac Halevi Herzog
Israel
Herzog
Henry Morgenthau
United Jewish Appeal
United States
Hersog
Sockman Named Hall of Fame Director at NYU
Dr Ralph W Sockman pastor and Methodist minister has been chosen director of New York University s Hall of Fame for Great Americans announced by University chancellor Dr Harry Woodhurn Chase Sockman who also serves as chaplain and council member becomes the sixth director succeeding the late Dr James Rowland Angell president emeritus of Yale University
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Sockman
Ralph W. Sockman
Christ Church. Methodist
New York University
Harry Woodhurn Chase
James Rowland Angell
Yale University
Methodists Raise Million During Dedication Week
The Methodist church network reports about 1 million dollars raised in March Week of Dedication as part of the Advance for Christ and His Church. Bishop Costen J. Harrell of Charlotte, North Carolina, reported totals. the four year effort aims at 50 million for missions and relief, with roughly 8.9 million gathered since initiation.
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Christ
Costen J. Harrell
Charlotte
N. C
Methodist General Conference
Boston
Reports Favorable for Christianity in India
Bishop Breshares reports to the Council of Bishops that India's secular freedom reduces suspicion of Christianity as imperialism. He calls Southern Asia a "land of opportunity" for a peaceful world, noting India and Pakistan lack major military aims. Bishop Holt of St Louis elected president of the Methodist Council of Bishops in Atlantic City. Oxnam reelected secretary. Magee named vice-president.
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India
Charles Wesley Breshares
Des Moines
Council of Bishops of the
Methodist Church
Hbrashares
Asia
Pakistan
Ivan Lee Holt
St. Louis
Council of Bishops of
Council
Atlantc City
James C. Baker
Los Angeles
G. Bromley Oxnam
New York
J. Ralph Magee
Chiago
Federal Council of Churches
Holt
World Council of Churches
Bishop Sees Place for Church in China
Atlantic City Methodist Bishop Carlton Lacy of Foochow China said the church must clearly define its role in Communistic China. He noted missionaries fleeing or killed and churches closed as the Communist army scattered congregations, predicting continued Communist domination despite hope for spiritual need.
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Atlantic City
Carlton Lacy
Foochow
China
Methodist Council of Bishops
Lacy
Bishopacy
Chiang Kaishek
Legislature Hears Prayer for Lobbyist
The California Legislature heard a public prayer urging lobbyists to act in the state’s best interests and avoid corruption. Bills ahead seek licensing of off track book making to add revenue around twenty thousand dollars and tighter control of the tavern business now described as a growing menace.
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Chaptain
California
Crgma
California General Assembly
Sue
Wkquer
Toronto Pastor Accepts Yale Divinity Post
The Rev. David A. MacLennan resigns from Eaton Memorial Church Toronto to join Yale Divinity School as professor of preaching and pastoral work. Born in Boston to Scottish Canadian parents, he led Eaton Memorial to 2400 members and receipts of $148,000 in 1946, a peak for the United Church.
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David A. MacLenhan
United Church of Canada
Thmoithy Eaton Memorial Church
Yale Divinity School
Boston
MacLennan
Toronto
Story Treal
Eaton Memorial
United Church
Mirror of Opinion and R Votes for Union
In Cleveland on April 21 the Mirror of Opinion notes that for the second time a union with Churches in the United Church of Christ was approved. The General Synod previously adopted the Basis of Union on July 15, 1947 and 33 of 34 synods ratified it. The General Council then approved interpretations, and the Cleveland meeting approved them six to one. Finalization requires two thirds of the synods before a General Synod can convene the United Church of Christ with 300 delegates from merging denominations, likely January or February 1850, amid a high ecumenical spirit and no schism threats.
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Christian Century
Cleveland
Congregational Christian Churches
United Church of Christ
General Synod
Congregational Christian General Council
E. and
Shore
Howe
Gene
Jauary
Melish Case in Court Vale Upholds Rector Firing Authority
A New York court affirmed Episcopal canon law allowing a bishop to fire a bishop’s rector. John Howard Melish, 74, sat devastated as Justice Meier Steinbrink read the ruling. The Church of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights faced a protracted dispute over rector William Howard Melish, 38, and his departure. The elder Melish vowed to continue the fight via appeals while both he and his son would not participate in services.
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Young Melish
National Council of
Holy Trinity
Long Island
Som William
Melish
Melfish
Prayer and the Nations at UN opens in new sky scraper
A Christa n Science Monitor report notes UN prayer sessions face faith diversity, suggests short silent prayers might suit all. Meanwhile a quiet chamber for prayer and meditation is planned in the new Manhattan headquarters, sparking possible opposition. Claremont Manor in Claremont Cal was dedicated April 30 as a Methodist aged home for about 100, under Neil D. Ireland of Pacific Home for the Aged.
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the Nations
Christan Science Monitor
United Nations
The
Manhattan
Claremont Manor
Claremont
Cal
Karl £. Meister
Board of Hospitals and Homes
Neil D. Ireland
Pacific Home For the
Los Angeles
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