Weekend Editorial Invitation on Religion RIENeTI
The symposium on My Religion offers a fresh view, presenting religion as revelation and redemptive energy shaping individuals and a hopeful world. Dr. Merle N. Smith argues true religion is vital for a troubled era, drawing on his long career as pastor in Marshalltown, Colorado Springs, and Pasadena.
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Cornell College
Iowa
Drew Theological Seminary
First Methodist Church
Marshalltown
Colorado Springs
Colo
Pasadena
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What Religion Means to Me
A reflective meditation likening religion to a living relation with God through Christ. It emphasizes God as life source and friend, brothership among believers, the immortality of the soul, transformation through faith, and religion as strength for a bold, hopeful life amid a troubled world.
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Smith
Does God Care in a World of Suffering Sermon Note
David Alexander MacLennan in Timothy Eaton Memorial Church Toronto poses whether a caring providence exists amid global disaster. He argues belief rests on Jesus Christ’s self-disclosure and self-giving, not only on observable facts, urging readers to reexamine faith and personal conviction.
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Thomas Carlyle
God
Jesus Christ
David Alexander MacLennan
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church
Toronto
Canada
Presbyterian Life
Protestant Episcopal General Convention Opens in St Louis
About eight thousand people attended the opening session of the 56th triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill said the church’s spiritual temperature is low and urged renewed faith, while the House of Deputies voted 221 to 242 to exclude four women delegates. Dr Cyril Foster Garbett warned that totalitarianism erodes freedom and urged the church to model tolerance facing world ideologies. Claude W. Sprouse was elected president of the Deputies, with attendees including 100 bishops and 800 clergy and lay delegates.
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San
Randolph H. Dyer
St. Lois
Sherrill
Christ
Earth
God
Cyril Foster Garbett
York
Garbett
Claude W. Sprouse
Kansas City
House of Deputies
Woman's Auxiliary of
Church
E.N.E
Eucharist Congress Opens in New York Cathedral
More than 6000 attended the Solemn Eucharist at St John the Divine Cathedral New York on Sept 15 opening a series of Eucharistic congresses by the AGU. Bishop DeWolf of Long Island celebrated with Dr Wand of London preaching as priests and laypeople from many nationalities witnessed Anglican-Catholic unity in Common Prayer.
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St. John the Divine
New York
AGU
DeWolf
Long Island
London
Dr.Wand
Churches Provide 26279 DP Assurances
Protestant and Eastern Orthodox denominations have provided a grand total of 26279 assurances enabling about 60000 displaced persons to enter the United States. Church World Service announced the figures, noting the assurances bind denominations to resettle a specified number of DP families and to offer jobs and housing for the refugees by next June.
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U.S
Church World Service
Interdenominational-Relief Agency
Episcopal Convention Links Drake Era to Prayer Book Anniversary
The 56th General Convention gathered Episcopalians from around the world including Anglican churchmen led by Archbishop Foster Garbett. A Grace Cathedral service near Drake’s Bay in Marin County marked the 400th anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer, whose English adoption reshaped liturgical practice and language. The convention mirrors Congress in structure with bishops and clerics as a legislative body.
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Episcopal Church
York
Foster Garbett
Church of Eng
San Francisco Chronicle
United States
Grace Cathedral
Sir Francis Drake
New Albion
Francis Fletcher
Drake
Church of England
Drake's Bay
Marin County
Golden Gate Park
Congress
House of Bishops
Senate
House of Clericns
House of Representatives
Protestant Proposal on Federal Aid Deadlock
Protestant leaders proposed two paths to resolve the congressional stalemate on education aid. They urged treating welfare services for children as a separate issue and suggested public administration if welfare aid is enacted, aiming to protect church state separation while addressing children’s schooling needs.
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New York
Federal Council of Churches
Congress
Federal Council
Genera
America
Paing
British church membership drift halted in Britain
The British Council of Churches fall meeting in London heard Rev. Richard D. Say report a halt to the drift in church membership. He cited the Church of Scotland adding 72,56 communicants, the Presbyterian Church in England 907 new members, Methodists up 2,602, and Baptist Sunday school enrollment rising by 13,600.
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Great Britain
Richard D. Say
British Council of Churches
London
Say
Church of Scotland
Presbyterian Church In
England
Methodists
Baptist
Missionaries Seek Friendly US China Ties in Shanghai
Seventy American Protestant missionaries in Shanghai signed a petition urging positive steps toward restoring normal trade relations with China. The document, also signed by 34 other Americans, was handed to the American Consulate for transmission to Washington, calling for continued friendly relations between the American and Chinese peoples and noting a rising sentiment for action to establish a sound thesis for relations with the new Chinese government. Notable signers include Bishop Ralph Ward, Bishop William P. Roberts, Dr. Frank Price, Margaret Frame, and Ralph Mortensen.
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Shanghai
United States
China
State Department
Washington
Ralph Ward
Methodist Church
Episcopal
William P. Roberts
Kiangsu
Frank Price
Church of Christ In
Margaret Frame
China Presbyterian Council
Ralph Mortensen
China Bible Society
Ron. S
John Stewart Burgess dies famed sociologist in China founder
John Stewart Burgess American sociologist known as the father of modern social work in China died last month in California at 66. Princeton graduate began in 1905 in Kyoto teaching and voluntering for YMCA. He organized social service clubs and aid groups in Peiping and later led sociology at Yenching University before teaching at Pomona and Temple University.
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John Stewart Burgess
Orient
China
California
Princeton
Burgess
Far East
Kyoto
Japan
M.C.A
Peiping
Feiping
Yenching University
College of Applied Sciences
United States
Pomona College
Temple University
World Communion Day Offering Urges Global Aid
Tomorrow World Communion will be observed as Christians worldwide collect for the Church World Service. The appeal highlights aid for Germany, Eastern Europe, Japan, and refugees in the Near East, with a request to send offerings to C W S at 214 East 21st Street New York NY 10.
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Christ
Jesus
Germany
Europe
Japan
Volksdeutsche
Near East
Church World Service
C.w-S
East 21St Street
New York
N. Y
Japan Christian Workers Conference Planned
More than a thousand clergy men are expected to attend an all Japan Workers' Conference in Tokyo Oct. 5-9 to rally support for the five-year evangelism drive launched by the United Church of Christ in Japan Kyodan last April. The conference commemorates Protestant missions’ 90th year in Japan and sessions are at Fujimi Church and Tokyo Women's University with two public meetings at Hibiya Public Hall.
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All Japan Workers' Conference
Tokyo
United Church of Christ In Japan
Kyodan
Japan
Fujimi Church
William Axding
Religious News Service
New Postal Bill Exempts Religious Publications Passed
The Senate Post Office Committee approved a bill exempting religious publications from postal rate hikes and calling for annual increases. The measure would reduce revenue by 100000, 160, or 150000000 compared with Administration plans. Newspapers and magazines would bear the heaviest impact amid proposed second class rate rises.
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Senate Post Office Committee
Senate
Post Office Department
84-Year-Old Missionary Begins World Air Trip
Miss Mary Jane Campbell an81 year old missionary sets out on an airplane trip around the world. She is a veteran of three round the world trips by land and sea and plans to visit Prime Minister Nehru in India where she spent 46 of her 54 years in foreign service.
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Mary Jane Campbell
India
Nehru
Across Continent Communion Sermon Lights 400th Book of Common Prayer
A Time magazine note reports on the Anglican Communion celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer. In St John the Divine Manhattan about 6000 worshipers attended a solemn Eucharist with 19 bishops and 700 clergy. The event opened nine eucharistic congresses across the United States with British divines including Primus of Scotland and bishops from London Oxford Bath & Wells. A sermon by Bishop J W C Wand and a resonant recitation of the Collect for the Church highlighted unity and reform themes.
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Church of England
Protestant Episcopal Church
U.S
Manhattan
St John the Divine
American Church Union
Cleveland
Evanston
Fond du Lac
Wis
Milwaukee
Dallas
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Seattle
Britain
Primus
Scotland
Ireland
Derry
Raphoe
London
Oxford
Bath & Wells
St. John's
J. W. C. Wand
Democracy and self discipline in Peekskill reflections
The piece argues democracy requires self discipline and respect for minority rights. It condemns incitement at Peekskill and urges adults, including veterans, to model restraint to educate youth for democracy and curb teenage unrest. It warns Robeson's public appearances may trigger further activists and calls for principled conduct.
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Peekskill
Robeson
Germany
Japan
Communists and Missionaries Run Chinese Medical School Plan
The Church of Scotland medical school at Mukden will be jointly operated with the Communist government for eight years under a new curriculum. Dr Liu says 1500 graduates will be produced yearly, replacing 20 to 25, as mass production to meet rural China’s doctor needs. Seven British missionaries remain on staff as the state finances the hospital and school.
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Church of Scotland
Mukden
China
Liu
Linnald
Harbin
Study recasts blame on women for social ills and notes 1945 alcoholism rates
Yale University research by Dr. EL M. Jellinek finds modern women face lower chronic alcoholism rates than in 1910, with about 1 in 260 as alcoholics then and 1 in 413 in 1945. The only rise occurred during World War II, while men rose sharply. The study also cites public visibility of women drinkers and regional patterns, with cities showing more alcoholism than rural areas.
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EL M. Jellinek
Yale University
Alcoholics Anonymous
Jeulinek
Wake Up America: Peekskill Riots and Free Speech
A Christian Science Monitor commentary decries the Peekskill violence, arguing the real crime was the mob’s suppression of free assembly and speech. It urges Americans to see the incident as a warning about complacency and the dangers of mob tyranny.
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America
Christian Science Monitor
Robeson
Peekskill
Peeskill
Paul Robeson
Laymen Power in America to Re Christianize Society
A discussion in Christianity and Crisis argues well trained laymen can perform evangelistic work more effectively than ministers, influencing unions, business and academia without hostility. It warns Protestant health declines when church work is limited to money, services and boards and urges open lay participation to combat paganism at the center of American life.
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United States
Europe
Presbyterians Cut Home Missions Budget to 5.1 Million
The board of national missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U S A voted a 5.1 million dollar budget for 125 percent, about 240 thousand less than last year. Funds support over 4000 projects in Alaska the West Indies and across the United States.
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Board of National Missions
The
Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
Alasa
West Indies
United States
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