They All Fear America Says Reinhold Niebuhr
Week-End Editorial reflects on Reinhold Niebuhr’s Oslo Youth Conference talk. He warns Christians to dissociate from pride, acknowledge universal guilt in world disorder, and oppose simplistic divides between communism and capitalism. Each nation bears responsibility in the tragic global drama.
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Europe
Oslo
Reinhold Niebuhr
America
India
Africa
Dr. Niebuhr
Niebuhr
Russia
France
Britain
China
Death of Chinese Christian Leader Tim Lew in Albuquerque
Timothy Tingfang Lew, a premier Chinese Christian figure, died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on August 2. A scholar, editor, professor, preacher, and hymn writer, he led Yenching University divinity school and shaped Chinese Christianity through conferences, the National Christian Council, and Truth and Life. He authored hymns, edited the Union Hymnal, and endured illness while contributing to the faith he served. His lasting motto was Let us agree to differ and resolve to love.
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China
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Timothy Tingfang Lew
Divinity School
Yenching University
National Christian Council
Truth and Life
Hu Shih
Union Hymnal
Scandal Over Hughes Roosevelt Bribes Taints U S Business
Senate sub committee probes into Howard Hughes and Elliot Roosevelt reveal extravagant entertainment funded by taxpayers. The report accuses American business of corruption as officials are courted with lavish gifts to sway government contracts and purchases.
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Senate
Howard Hughes
Elliot Roosevelt
Hf Hughes
Comptroller General
Gandhi resigns leadership and moves to Pakistan
Gandhi declares he will live in Pakistan after India is partitioned into Hindu and Muslim dominions. He says he surrenders Free India's leadership to pursue peace with Muslim neighbors and unite the subcontinent, a bold gesture aimed at healing divisions.
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India
Hindustan
Pakistan
Gandhi
Interfaith Councils Backed Across Europe by Clergy
An interfaith movement backed by church leaders aims to create councils tying Protestant Catholic and Jewish groups across Europe. Dr Everett R Clinchy announced at Seelisberg that 70 delegates from 17 nations support forming councils in Paris Brussels Berlin Copenhagen Geneva Rome Athens Prague Bucharest and others with headquarters in Paris. The plan extends to postwar Germany American zone cities urged by General Lucius D Clay to educate Germans in democratic group relations and human values, with Germany to begin in September.
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Europe
Everett R. Clinchy
Nalional Conference of Christians and Jews
International Council of Christians
Seelisberg
Switzerland
Clinchy
Paris
Brussels
Berlin
Copenhagen
Geneva
Rome
Athens
Prague
Bucharest
Great Britain
International Conference of Christians and Jews
Oxford
England
France
International Council
National Council
Thesr
Seclisberg
N.C.C
Germany
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Willard =Goslin
Minneapolis
Minn
America
U. 5
Goslif
Arcerlea
Goslith
Ry N.S
Scotsman Succeeds Dr John R Mott as YMCA Leader
J Forester Paton of Alloa Clackmannanshire Scotland was elected president of the World Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association at the committee's first postwar meeting. He succeeds Dr John R Mott an American churchman who had held the post for decades.
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J. Forester _ Paton
Alloa
Clackmanshire
Scotland
Young Men's Christian Association
John R.mott
Religious Education Week Endorsed by President Truman
President Truman has endorsed the seventeenth annual Religious Education Week Observance to be held September 28 through October 5 under the International Council of Religious Education. He praised the theme Faith is the Victory and urged youth to pursue spiritual growth through instruction in the doctrines of God and man. Thousands of Protestant churches across denominations will observe the event with Councils of Churches.
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Harry S. Truman
International Counscil of
Truman
Roy G. Ross
Brotherhood of Man
International Council of Religious Education
Czechoslovakia Sees Need of Home Life in War’s Aftermath
Dr Adolph Novotny of the Czechoslovak Sunday School Association urged at a World Sunday School Assembly that European children suffer from broken homes due to war. He warned of many homes lacking protection, with parents forced to work away, creating spiritually homeless families and urging prayers for better economic conditions to keep mothers at home and nurture love for God.
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Adolph Novotny
World Sunday School Association
Novotny
Dr. Novotny
God
Patience Need Seen By Bishop Sherrill
The Rt Rev Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, urges patience and rejects war rhetoric toward Russia. He says Russians are not the enemy, but materialism and greed endanger peace, and Christian churches must unite to meet spiritual challenges.
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Henry Knox Shervill
Protestant Episcopal Church In
America
God
Christ
Boston
Beyond Our Own to Be Shown in 100 Cities
Mission Film will be shown in 100 cities across the United States and Canada in November. Be yond Our Own is the Protestant Film Commission’s first production, filmed and edited for church audiences. The project is sponsored by 18 major Protestant denominations and supported by 29 denominations general.
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Paul F. Heard
The
Protestant Film Commission
United States
Canad
Interdenominational Service Agency
Hollywood
Dr Wassell to Serve in Molokai Hospital
Dr. Corydon Wassell, naval hero famed for evacuating wounded servicemen from Java, will return to the Pacific as a missionary for the Protestant Episcopal Church. He and his wife plan to serve as physicians at Molokai Islands 32 bed hospital without pay. His wartime feats inspired a James Hilton book and a film.
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Corydon Wassell
Roosevelt
Java
Pacific
Protestant Episcopal’ Church
Tor- Mer
Little Hock
Ark
Doeter Wat
Sail
Trom’ Tor
Molokin
Islands
Ins
Jeper Hospital
Wassell
James Hilton
Baha i Faith Also Is at Home in Palestine
The Baha i Faith treats Palestine as its spiritual and administrative center and urges careful regard for Baha i rights in any future settlement. Shoghi Effendi notes Bahu llah, the Bab, and Abdul Baha are buried there and the international headquarters are in Haifa. He states he resides in Palestine.
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Palestine
Shoghi Effendi
Dormal
United Nations Special Committee On
Many Veterans Are Studying Theology
The Veterans Administration reports that almost 5000 veterans enrolled in colleges and educational institutes recently under the Grain of Rights are studying theology. Sampling 1,825,000 school-going veterans last May, the VA found 8979 in theology, with 1,126,000 in colleges and universities and 691,000 in high schools or trade schools.
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Veterans Administration
V. A
Anglican leader named as new primate in Japan
The Rt. Rev. Michael Hinsuke succeeds the late Bishop Jodam Sugai of South Tokyo. Hinsuke, youngest of seven Japanese Anglican bishops, is regarded as an active and capable church leader.
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Michael Hinsuke
Holy Catholc Church In
Japan
Jodam Sugai
South
Tokyo
Primarz
Methodists Plan Steady Evangelism Program
The national Methodist convention in Albion,Wiel urged a quadrennial plan 1948 82 to recruit hundreds of thousands of members through enduring personal evangelism. Bishop Charles Seleeman of Dallas claimed Methodists had enrolled a million believers in a year, stressing evangelism should be an ongoing effort rather than a special campaign.
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Board of Evangelism of
The
Methodist Church
Albion, Wiel
Charles ©. Selecman
Dallas
General Board of Evangelism
Ttme
Seleeman
Guy ©. Carpenter
First Methodist Church
Vincennes
Ind
Carpenter
Service Club Urges Religious Guidance For Boys
Dr Elton C Spires district governor of the Optimist International told Southern California clubs last week to intensify programs aiding churches in providing religious instruction for boys. He cited 17 year olds as the age with higher crime rates and urged parental attention and peer support during adolescence to shape life choices and standards. Optimist Clubs in the Southwestern states focus much on guiding boys through this critical period under the banner Service for the Boy.
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Elton C. Spires
Lth
Optimist International
California
Spires
FHS
Ahd
Salvation Army Official Opposes Political Endorsement in West Africa
The Salvation Army commander in the West African Territory condemns any officer running for Lexus town council. He states a Salvation Army officer should never align with a political party or be seen as endorsing one.
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Salvation Army
Lexus
Christian Educators Have Great Goals in Nationwide Workshop
Dr. Wilfred E. Powell of Phillips University Bridgman Oklahoma cites cooperative Protestantism as key for Christian education. During Lake Forest College event with 200 church leaders, he outlines four musts: teach the Bible for life use, foster personal faith, make worship a personal approach to God, and empower laymen as a Christian force in church and community.
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Wilfred E. Powell
Phillips University
Brid
Oklo
Powell
Directors of Christian Education
Lake Forest College
Lay Taen
Hungarian Groups Awake to New Needs
At Nyiregyhaza a Hungarian Reformed Church Free Council convention chaired by Rev Alber t Ber enzky focused on Christian leadership duties to boost missionary work amid rising Communist influence. The council, created in 1946, is a Protestant assembly not an official church body. It plans a public statement to define Hungary’s position in world Christianity.
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Hungarian Reformed Church Free Council
Nyiregyhaza
Alebert Berenzky
Commission of Foreign Affairs
Hungarian Pareament
Free Council
Hungary
Council
Kagawa Highlights Four Factors in Japan Revival
Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa says Japan’s Christian revival stems from freedom of religion under General MacArthur, rising moral self respect, decline of Shinto and Buddhist routine, and anti materialist appeal of Christianity. He notes daily converts rising from fifty to five hundred.
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The
Lutheran
Toyohiko Kagawa
Japan
General MacArthur
Kagawa
Churchmen Praise Fort Knox Experiment
Unqualified approval from a civilian advisers group including religious leaders educators health officials and parents was given to the Army Universal Training Experiment Unit at Fort Knox. A January commenced national UM T unit report lauds the religious educational and ethical aims and calls for universal military training with a focus on preparedness over combat. The religious committee led by Rabbi Joseph Rouch and Rev H W Carpenter highlights morals ethics and closer civilian military life integration. The educational committee including Father Felix N Pitt notes the program broadens horizons for youths and exposes them to new opportunities in service.
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Army
Fort Knox
Um.t
John M. Devine
Joseph Rouch
H.W. Carpenter
Frank HW. Gregg
C. Boldeick
Gregg
Louisville Council of Churches
U.M.T
Xelizinn
Felix N. Pitt
Catholic School Board of
Archdiocese of
Louisville
Old Church Writings Will Be Published
Dr Ludwig Schopp announces a 72 volume American translation project of principal Christian writings from Apostolic times to the 5th century. The first volume The Apostolic Fathers, includes St Clement of Rome and St Polycarp letters, Didache, Shepherd of Hermas, 416 pages.
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Ludwig Schopp
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
St. Clement of
Homa
St. Inastius
Antioch
St. Polycarp
Hermas
Schopp
St. Augueling
Gerald G. Walsh
Rudolph Abbasmin
Pordhim University
Dee Roy J. Defervarl
Stephen Kuliner
Wilfrid Parsons
Catholic University of America
Bernard M. Peebles
St. John's College
Annapolis
Anselm Striitmatter
St Anselm's Priory
Washington, D.C
Christian Policies Sought for Asia
Australian Anglican leaders urge Asia policy marks at Canberra talks. They warn against making Japan a U.S. weapon against Russia and call for Japan to join UN and for advisory Christians at treaty sessions. They seek plebiscites on former Japanese mandates and moderation of penalties in the Japanese treaty.
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Japan
United States
Russia
Australia
Canberra
John B. Moyes
Armidale
Geoffrey ¥. Cranswick
Wishop
Tasmania
Felix Arnott
Sydney University
William G. Coughlan
Christian Social Order Movement
United Nations
U.S
Mirror of Opinion on Christian Influence in Politics
The 189th General Assembly urges Christians to participate in politics through informed voting and personal communication with legislators. It warns against pressure groups and large postcard campaigns, emphasizing independent thought, prayer, and responsible civic influence over government.
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General Assembly
Washington
Walter H. Judd
Iet
Congress
Typical American Family Now Consists of Six Members
A bulletin citing 1940 Census figures shows the typical American family includes father mother and three children. The husband is usually under 25 at marriage and the wife under 22. children are born about two years apart. By the third birth the couple are in their late twenties, and parents are middle aged only after children leave home. families of five remain common and better suited to modern economics.
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The
Institute of Life Insurance
United States Bureau of the Census
Bureau
United States
Slavery, Liberty, and Christian Ethics Across Nations
A historical reflection contrasts western civilization’s growth in liberty with slavery and serfdoms. It notes Christian humanitarian ideals opposing slave systems, celebrates abolition movements in the nineteenth century, and warns of modern reimpositions of forced labor under regimes hostile to Christianity.
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South America
Europe
Germany
Soviet Union
World Sunday School Association to Rename and Host 1050 Convention
The World Sunday School Association votes to change its name to the World Council of Christian Education and announces the next world convention will be held in 1050 somewhere in North America.
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World Sunday School Associaion
World Council of Christian Eduction
North America
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Sherrill
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William Heney Chamberlain
Wall Street Journal
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