Week End Editorial on Albert Schweitzer as Greatest Man
LIFE magazine highlights Albert Schweitzer at 92 as a figure of philosophy theology music medicine and missionary work. The piece details his Alsace birth his Bach interpretations his African hospital at Lambarene his writings and his devotion to serving the lowliest while warning against nationalism and materialism. It compares his thought to Toynbee and cites his guiding creed that greatness lies in service.
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Current Life Magazine
Albert Schweitzer
Schweitzer
Alsace
Bach
Jesus
Christ
French Equatorial Africa
Lambarene
Arnold F. Toynbee
Dr. Schweitzer
Americans Alert to Save Food for Europe
A national call from the President prompts voluntary self discipline in eating and saving food. Public groups and individuals are urged to help. A mass meeting is planned for October 16 at 8 pm in Pasadena Civic Auditorium where two ministers who spent three months in Europe will speak on America and the European Crisis.
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Europe
Civic Auditorium
Pasadena
America
Food relief mobilized by church council calls for bold action
The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America pledges strong U S aid to share food with overseas hungry, urging tougher measures to mobilize Americans and boost shipment relief. Charles P Taft signs as president.
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Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
United States
Charles P. Taft
Church Tower on Catholic Protestant Tensions Cited by Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr criticizes Catholic Protestant tensions in the U S noting mutual intolerances across faiths. He argues charity and recognition of shared human flaws are needed while warning against church state entanglement and religious monopoly in democracy.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
Methodist Crusade Against Social Injustice Urged
Rev Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston Illinois urged the church to wage a holy crusade against hunger poverty racial discrimination and inequality at the seventh Ecumenical Methodist Conference in Springfield Massachusetts He said Methodism must pursue peace not war and highlighted the churchs historic concern for individual worth and civilization He noted divisions by color lines and urged Methodists North and South to work toward a day when all shall worship as one church of the people
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Ernest Fremont Tittle
Evanston
Ill
Russia
Tittle
Springfield
Mass
Methodiam
91 Per Cent of Kansas City Youth in Church Schools
Kansas City marked its 26th year of weekday church school work with fifty six Protestant centers twelve Catholic and one Jewish center. About 11 000 children, roughly 91 percent of city youths, enrolled this year, receiving time off from regular school to attend. The city historically led weekday religious education before 1840, with New York surpassing in the early 1940s and Kansas City remaining in second place.
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Kansas City
United States
New York City
Presbyterians Enter Final Phase of Restoration Drive
Presbyterian churches nationwide push the final phase of a $27,000,000 Restoration Fund Drive. Dr. H. A. Dalzell announces the plan as 8,000 churches share in a three year effort. By now $25,087,439 has been pledged, including $14,963,870 in cash from 2,000,000 members. Restoration Sunday is set for November 8 by the General Assembly.
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H. A. Dalzell
General Assembly of the Church
Crsh
Separation of church and state debate amid Protestant fears
The text argues that state support for religion is unacceptable but must be equally shared among all faiths. It claims the absolute separation idea stems from Protestant fear of Catholicism and notes Protestant fragility, internal tensions, and lax discipline as root causes of insecurity more than Catholic political influence.
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Christ
A.surioud
Ireland
America
Niemoehmer Named Head of Hessen Nassau Church
Dr Martin Niemmoeller was elected president of the Evangelical Church of Hessen and Nassau after a two day Friedberg convention that united the Frankfurt Hessen and Nassau regions. The vote was 84 to 34 among 120 delegates with about 1.5 million Protestants under the new church.
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Frankfurt, Hessen
Nashau
Germany
Friedberg
Evangelical Church of
Hessen and
Nassau
Martin Niemweller
Berlin Bishop Planned US Visit by Dr Otto Dibelius
Berlin Bishop Dr Otto Dibelius of the Evangelical Church plans to depart October 8 for an extended United States visit. He will address church and seminary groups, sponsored by the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. The military exit permit was personally cleared by General Lucius D Clay. Dibelius, a vocal anti Nazi figure, was once superintendent of the United Church of Prussia and rose to prominence after a Potsdam sermon defying the Nazi Party.
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Otto Dibelius
Berlin
Evangelical Church In
Germany
United States
America
Evangelical and
Church
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ i America
Dibelius
Lucius D. Clay
Armerican Occupaion
United’ Church of Prussia
Cime
Potsdam
Quakers in Germany Open Neighborhood Center in Frankfort
The American Friends Service Committee opened a neighborhood center in Frankfurt under Rev. Elmore M. McKee to aid German self-help and civilian reintegration. Anne McCormick notes centers in Darmstadt and Frankfurt symbolize German American partnership beyond mere aid. Dr. McKee says centers foster shared responsibility among military, officials, and civilians, with plans for such hubs in destroyed communities. He praises the organization for value-for-money and volunteer-driven work in postwar need.
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Germany
American’ Friends Service
Sommittee
Frankfort
Umder
Elmore M. McKee
St. George's Church
New York
Anne O'Hare McCormick
New York Times
The
Times
Darmstadt
McKee
United Church of South India Inaugurated At Madras
A new church union formed by four Anglican dioceses in Madras and the South India Provincial Synod of the Methodist Church unites with the South India United Church, blending Episcopal and non Episcopal traditions. Nine bishops were consecrated at St George's Cathedral with seven more previously consecrated, forming a 14 bishop leadership including five native Indians.
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India
United Church of
South India
New India
Ceylon
South India United Church
RNS
Oxnam Urges Methodist Peace Commission Formation
Bishop G Bromley Oxnam urged creating a Methodist commission on international affairs during the seventh Ecumenical Methodist Conference in Springfield Massachusetts. He warned US policy risks provoking another world war and urged Europe to accept American support while nations solve their own problems. He defended dynamic faith as Christianity and called for a free state and a united anti communism world view.
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G. Bromley Oxnam
Springfield
Masa
Europe
Bishop Oxnam
Methodist Church
Oxnam
Wide Persecution of Christians in Korea
Reports from refugees and American observers describe a broad crackdown in North Korea. About sixty Protestant leaders including forty Presbyterians and twenty Methodists were reportedly jailed in Pyongyang within months. The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor and its leaders face disbandment and arrest, while a government drive targets Christians in state jobs and public roles.
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Seoul
Korea
North Korea
Joint Commission of
Ung” R. N.S
Missions Expenditures Reach 22 Million for 1946
A total of 22,829,904 dollars was spent on overseas mission work in 1946 by 106 Protestant boards and agencies in the United States and Canada. Dr. Wynn C. Fairfield reported to the Foreign Missions Conference of North America. Over 19.7 million of the total went to foreign fields, led by the Seventh-day Adventists and Southern Baptists with 4.57 million and 4.41 million respectively.
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United States
Canada
Wynn C. Fairfield
Foreign Missions Conference of North America
Fifth Avenue
Fairfield
General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists
Southern Baptist Convention
Methodist Church
Presbyterian Church
Assemblies of God
Protestant Episcopal Church
Congregational Christian Church
Congregationalists Seek 6 Million Relief Drive
Congregational Christian churches plan to raise 6 114 000 by December 31 1948 to aid war devastated lands. Rev Albert J Penner reported to the eastern regional meeting that about half the total is already secured. Dr Russell H Stafford was re elected president of the Congregational American Board of Foreign Missions and Rev Stuart L Anderson of Long Beach was elected vice president.
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Congregational Christian Churches
Albert J. Penner
Council For Social Action
Russell H. Stafford
Hartford, Conn
Theological Foundation
Congregational American Board of Foreign Missions
Stuart L. Anderson
Long Beach
Cal
Taft Asks Churches for Meatless Days
Charles P Taft president of the Federal Council of Churches urges American churches to promote nationwide meatless and wheatless days. He calls for moral initiative, more vegetables and fruit, and church suppers as focal points for conservation efforts amid food shortages.
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Churches of America
Charles P. Taft
Federal Council of Churches
Mgr. Tait
Urges Ad Campaign for Christian Truths
Rev Paul Q Quillian of Houston urges a national Methodism ad campaign to interpret central truths and activities of the Christian Church. He proposes $900,000 funded by the best advertisers to use radio magazines and newspapers, arguing it could preserve liberties and citizenship and connect unchurched individuals with local churches through nationwide effort.
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Christian Church
Paul Q. Quillian
Houston
Texas
Ecumenical Methodist Conference
Quillian
150000 Japanese Bibles Set for Tokyo Arrival Before Christmas
American Bible Society plans shipping of 150,000 Japanese Bibles to Tokyo to arrive before Christmas. Japan Bible Society reports strong local demand, with unprecedented Bible study classes and groups forming nationwide since the war.
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Tokyo
American Bible Society
Japan
Japan Bible Society
Mirror of Opinion on wasting food in wartime era
Christian Belomoe Monitor notes housewives oppose President Truman's call to waste less food arguing high prices already force minimization. The piece argues many Americans are well fed yet wasteful and suggests smaller portions with offers for those who want more. Emphasizes saving without scrimping and that hunger is not appetite. Encourages economical use and generous sharing amid non rationing.
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Truman
Sockman Urges Anti War Movement at Ecumenical Conference
Dr Ralph W Sockman of Christ Church New York urged at the seventh Ecumenical Methodist Conference in Springfield Mass that war is not inevitable and that Russia is too poor to start a war He warned against fear and hate and pressed for democracy to work through steady policy The clergyman also called for open doors to displaced persons noting Americas responsibility in aiding those without homes and urged faith in the future.
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Russia
United States
Ralph W. Sockman
Christ Church, New York
Ecumenical Methodist Conference
Springfield
Mass
Sockman
Lockman
Europe
Western
United Nations
Locke Tan
Britain
America
Kremlin
Truman Backs Church Attendance Crusade
President Truman endorses a Church Attendance Crusade by the Federal Council of Churches for eight consecutive Sundays starting World Communion Day. In a letter, he urges resumed attendance to renew spiritual principles guiding ancestors and to answer humanity’s twentieth century cry for salvation.
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Truman
Federal Council of Churches
Institutons
Fsil
Record Released Time Attendance in Maas
Officials of an inter faith committee report released time religious instruction in public schools will draw a new high. In Boston 24 000 children from 74 districts attend sessions in churches halls and parochial schools during weekday study periods.
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Massachusetts
Boston
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