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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1949
Page
4
A religion editor presents a panel from Protestant Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders. They share personal, nonpropagandistic reflections on what religion means to them, emphasizing honest inquiry fellowship and the belief that truth is discoverable by each seeker without sectarian dogma.
Opinion piece citing Anne McCormick on communist oppression in Czechoslovakia and Balkan states. It condemns Prague purge, church seizures, arrests, and Romania’s brutal regime, urging U.N. Assembly and U.S. Senate to push for refuge and action.
A constructed ode urges courage and unity urging a shift from war memories to brotherhood. It proclaims hope as the night ends and calls for prophets to sing and a world built as one. It emphasizes rejecting greed and hate in favor of shared divine estate.
Dr Lucius C Porter a Congregationalist educator with nearly four decades in China urged early recognition of the new Chinese government by the United States and Western democracies. Speaking at the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and Midwest Congregational Christian churches meeting he cited his Peiping experience and China’s history to argue for U S recognition to ease anti Western sentiment and support the new regime while maintaining religious freedom and continued missionary work.
A note from the Christian Digest recalls Voltaire predicting the Bible’s obsolescence. It notes his house later became the Geneva Bible Society’s base and that a large sale of Voltaire’s works fetched two dollars at auction.
Church services nationwide mark Reformation Sunday October 30 with union events led by figures such as Dr W Sockman in Kansas City and Dr Franklin C Fry in St Louis. Major observances in Washington and New York involve Cardinal Gent, Bishop Oxnam, and 10 000 to 12 000 attendees at Cathedral of St John the Divine. A Pasadena service features Rt Rev Stephen Cutter Clark. leaders urge a balanced UN policy, not simplistic internationalization.
The message urged all Lutherans, including 4,000,000 members in the United States and Canada, to support church relief and reconstruction overseas as a modern stand for freedom and gospel witness. It honored Bishop Lajos Ordass as a living symbol of Reform and urged courage for those in Czechoslovakia, Eastern Germany, and Finland under tyrannical pressure.
A large crowd attended a joint service for all Christians at the Hollywood Bowl. Sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, the ceremony featured nineteen Episcopal bishops and 200 Protestant ministers, with prominent civic leaders and movie stars among the participants. Archbishop Garbett urged unity beyond false formulas, while Charles Taft urged clergy to aid laymen in soul searching to draw them to Sundays.
The Protestant Episcopal Church shows a 3 percent growth in members to 2,283,289 and 5.4 percent more communicants to 1,592,522 in the last triennium. Postulants reach a peak of 104 while clergy numbers stay steady due to wartime recruitment suspension. Total receipts reach $69 million, averaging $43.39 per communicant, with benevolence giving rising 41.2 percent to exceed $8.8 million annually.
The Universalist Church in America assembly backed a plebiscite among local churches to approve a study on federal union with the American Unitarian Association. If by June 1, 1950 at least 50 percent approve, a permanent unification commission would be formed to draft a federal union plan for local church approval.
Tokyo reports the International Christian University fund drive raised 182 million yen, surpassing the 180 million target by 2 million. Half of the contributors were non Christians, with funds coming from every prefecture in Japan via a business and professional men’s organization backing the campaign.
In a letter circulated to about 7000 priests, the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Czechoslovakia condemned two new laws giving the government control over church affairs. Approved Oct. 4 by Parliament, the measures aim at subjugating and liquidating the church. The bishops urged refusal of state salary increases for clergy and noted widespread repression of citizens.
Preliminary results from a church census in Denver show about 300000 people have present or prospective links to 46 churches. Conducted by the Denver Council of Churches and the National Christian Teaching Mission, the Rocky Mountain News noted the start of this coverage with a promise to report on services in different churches each Sunday.
The U.N. General Assembly voted 45 to 0 to open and close plenary meetings with a minute of silence for prayer and meditation effective January 1, 1950. Several states abstained, including Soviet Russia and Czechoslovakia, while the proposal was drafted by the assembly's methods committee in response to global protests over recognizing religious heritage.
War Relief Services announces a nation wide Thanksgiving clothing drive in Roman Catholic churches across the United States. Eighty six archdioceses and dioceses have pledged cooperation to support the effort. Since 1943 War Relief Services have shipped 303 million pounds of aid valued at about 130 million dollars to 61 countries.
The Midwest Regional Congregational Christian Churches urged greater missionary work at their 22nd annual gathering in Minneapolis. They stressed missions are needed everywhere and urged saving for missions rather than saving on it. The meeting coincided with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 140th annual gathering.
A twofold appeal urges expanded foreign missions. Congregational Christian Churches in Minneapolis call for strong missionary support amid global obligations, while Dr. Frank C. Laubach promotes a United Christian campaign to curb Communist influence in Asia and Africa.
Mikvor of Opinion lauds Sholem Asch and the Mary volume as the culmination of his Jesus trilogy. The critic notes a shift from debate to ecstatic spirituality, praising Asch for emotionally and artistically retelling the birth life and death of Christ, placing the work among the period’s inspired biblical interpretations.
Tribute pours in for John Dewey America's leading living philosopher viewed as a zestful pragmatist. The piece compares him to William James noting philosophy as an instrument for practical adjustment and life on the open road. It warns that without spiritual absolutes pragmatic progress risks catastrophe and stirs debate between two halves of America.
The 1-foot wooden Jerusalem Cross, said to hold a relic of the Cross, arrived in Washington from Detroit for a six day stay. It will be placed in the crypt at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Catholic University where prayers for peace will be offered and Dom Thomas Becquet will speak before the tour continues to American centers and later to South America and Australia.
About 10,500 people attended an interdenominational Our America program at the Hollywood Bowl sponsored by the National Go-to Church Campaign. The event targeted parents and children with an invocation by armed forces chaplains. Governor Goodwin J Knight of California urged a choice between Godless and Godfearing leadership in the world.
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