Week End Editorial Amsterdam A Challenge to the Church
Editorial urges local churches to base four weeks of forums on the Amsterdam World Council of Churches report. It highlights four themes, calls for a November four-week program, guidance from leaders, and a final union mass meeting to renew religious thinking and address local church issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
World Council of Churches
Amsterdam
World Council
Henry P. van Dusen
Union Theological School
God Grant
Christendom
Churches of Protestant Christendom
Amsterdam Assembly
Christendorm
Christian Century
South Dearborn Street
Chicago
Council of Churches
Berlin Resists in Mass Anti Communist Demonstration
From Berlin Dr Henry Hitt Crane describes a mass rally near the Reichstag with an estimated two hundred fifty thousand to a million participants. The scene features orderly protest against Communist pressure, speakers in the open air, and a flare of violence ending with a Russian flag being torn down and gunfire in the British sector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Europe
Germany
University of Berlin
Reichstag
Brandenburg Gate
Unter den Linden
Otto Suhr
Harnack House
HEC
Atomic Energy for Mankind interview highlights Lilienthal
Archibald MacLeish conducts a Life interview with David Lilienthal on atomic energy as a new global force. He argues the need for shared labor to harness this vast knowledge for peace, noting cancer and food shortages worldwide and the potential for medical and agricultural advances to spur progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald MacLeish
Life Magazine
David Lilienthal
Russia
Great Mystic Still Speaking Great Mystic Still Speaking
Rufus M. Jones, a Quaker elder statesman, died at 85. The last book highlights the American Friends Service Committee and its global work, noting its vision of rebuilding the world in line with the Kingdom of God and affirming that God still speaks. It recalls Jones’s Alpine vision of entering a life of mystical interpretation and direct relation with God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus M. Jones
Jones
American Friends Service Committee
Church of Christ
Alps
Churchman Afield Reports Provocative Church Gathering
Delegates at the General Council of the United Church of Canada in Vancouver discussed world peace, pacifism, high prices, ministers salaries, teetotalism and women's roles. They urged protest against sensational films, supported low-cost housing, penal reform, and condemned liquor outlets while urging diplomacy to prevent war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Council of the United Church of Canada
Vancouver
B.C
J. R. Mutchmore
Christian Church
Winnipeg
Toronto
Theological Schools Record Enrollments in Boston
Five Protestant theological schools and a Roman Catholic seminary in Boston report fall term enrollments at record highs. Deans credit a spiritual renaissance among World War II veterans and aggressive recruitment to a national clergy shortage. Boston University School of Theology up 40 percent. Harvard Divinity School doubles student numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Boston University School of Theology
Harvard Divinity School
Convocation on the Church in Town and Country set in San Jose
Fifteen leaders will be featured at the fifth annual Convocation on the Church in Town and Country to be held in San Jose California from November 9 to 11. The event is sponsored by Home Missions Council of North America Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and the International Council of Religious Education, inter denominational Protestant bodies. Open to ministers wives laypeople church administrators religious educators editors farm and rural organization officers and civic government employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jose
Cal
Home Missions Council of North America
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
International Council of Religious Education
Who Is Responsible Viscount Samuel Critiques Moral Leadership
Viscount Samuel, president of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, is quoted by the Christian Science Monitor criticizing modern morals. He says crime is entertainment and murder a parlor game, with compunction and remorse fading, while religion fails to enter public life. The editor calls for individual responsibility as the bedrock of universal good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viscount Samuel
Royal Institute of Philosophy
The
Christian Science Monitor
Forum
Unity Service At Polo Grounds Draws 53 000 Catholics
Francis Cardinal Spellman addressed 53 000 Catholics at the seventh annual Holy Name World Unity Service in New York. The event featured a public Rosary with five tableaux and prayers for world unity through the conversion of Russia. Candles lit across the stadium created a sea of light as spectators shared the flame row by row.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Polo Grounds
New York
Russia
Cardinal Spellman
Methodist Women Plan Membership Drive
The Women's Division of Christian Service aims to add 1,000,000 members in January across Methodist churches. Preliminary plans from a two day Columbus Ohio meeting outline four points for a four year program. Other goals include 1000 missionaries and deaconesses, a 33 1/3 percent rise in regular missionary donations, and an education and action program to support further efforts.
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Division of
Christian Service
Columbus
Judge Ends Dixon Case Favor of Protestants
After nine days of hearings at Santa Fe District Judge E. T. Hensley ruled there is no separation of Church and State in some New Mexico public schools. He said Catholicism is taught in public schools and indicated the written judgment would generally favor the Protestant plaintiffs seeking to bar Catholic clergy from teaching posts.
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Dixon
Santa Fe
E. T. Hensley
New Mexico
Hensley
Stassen Calls End of Social Blots in Combatting Communism
Harold Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania, urged 3000 World Mission Assembly delegates to root out social, economic, and racial blots at home to curb Communist propaganda and uphold human dignity. He pressed for UN growth and a shift from absolute national sovereignty to peoples sovereignty for a just peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Harold ¥. Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
World Mission Assembly
Foreign Missions Conference of North America
Stassen
United Nations
New Churches Formed Rapidly Across United Lutheran Church
United Lutheran Church in America reports at its 16th biennial convention that 56 new congregations were organized in two years, averaging 75 members each and totaling 4,201 charter members. The 1947 Lutheran membership across the United States and Canada reached 6,836,147, up 2.9 percent from the prior year per the National Lutheran Council survey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Lutheran Church In America
Board of American Missions
United Lutheran Church
Lutheran Churches
United States
Canada
National Lutheran Council
Cripps Warns on Democracy Without Moral Core
Sir Stafford Cripps, visiting delegate, told Federal Bar Association luncheon a key danger is self driven human action lacking spiritual content. He warned tyrants prosper when citizens ignore moral power, urging democracy needs personal religion to endure. He cited Churchill's praise of intellect and stated Christianity as his own core belief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Bar Association
Supreme Court
Sir Stafford
Ste Stafford
Stafford
Winston Churchill
German Bishop Praises American Church Aid At Philadelphia Meet
Bishop Hans Meiser of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany lauded United Lutheran Church in America for aiding Germany, calling it the largest act of love in Christian history. He cited Germans’ Christian aid and Bible reading as signs of unity and urged continued support through the Gospel. He spoke while visiting the U S under NLC and Lutheran Church Missouri Synod auspices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
America
United Lutheran Church In America
Philadelphia
Hans Meiser
Evangelical Lutheran Church In
Luther
Christ
Meiser
United States
National Lutheran Council
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Missionary Laubach reports global literacy gains
And So Forth Frank C. Laubach, a literacy expert and missionary, recently returned from a nine week tour of 11 African countries where he implemented literacy programs in 63 dialects for government officials. He spoke at Foreign Missions Conference headquarters, noting that since 1820 over 250 million illiterates worldwide have learned to read by phonetic methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank C. Laubach
Foreign Missions Conference
Mirror of Opinion For Reading in a Presidential Year
In this presidential year readers are urged to inform themselves from all angles. Seek speeches and documents, not only campaigns, to form an intelligent vote. Every American must study the issues and support what they deem best for the country. No one can stay on the sidelines.
Bernadotte Plan Wins U N and British Support
The Bernadotte proposals gain sudden support from both the United States and Britain marking a rare alignment on Palestine. The plan envisions recognition of Israel as a state with Galilee to the Jewish side and the Negev to Arabs, Jerusalem under U N control, Haifa as a free port, and Lydda as a free airport with possible Arab fond participation in Transjordan. The plan faces risk from Arab leaders and U N distractions amid Berlin tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Count Bernadotte
U.N. Assembly
United States
Britain
Palestine
Bernadotte
Israel
Galilee
Negev
Jerusalem
U.N
Haifa
Lydda
Transjordan
Grand Mufti
Arab League
Abdullah
Bernadette
Berlin
Conservatives Protest Global Christian Unity Rifts
A protest by dissident US groups led by Reverend Carl MelIntire attacks the World Council of Churches and its allies. The movement, described as reactionary theologically and politically, mirrors tensions within American evangelical life, with the Southern Baptist Convention of about six million members notably declining to join the council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
America
Carl MelIntire
Federal Council of Churches In America
World Council
Russia
Church records rise as Fry wins third term
PHILADELPHIA Dr. Franklin Clark Fry was reelected president of the United Lutheran Church for a third two year term. He reported at the biennial convention that membership and Sunday school enrollment increased during the past biennium and that the church set new giving records by contributing more than 5,000,000 dollars to Lutheran World Action in 1946 47.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Michio Kozaki
Church of Christ In
World Mission Assembly
Columbus
Ohio
Kozaki
Kyung Chik Han
National Christian Council of
South Korea
Assembly
North Korea
Korea
North
South
Philadelphia
Franklin Clark Fry
United Lutheran Church
Lutheran World Action
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