Week End Editorial On Dr Fitch Religion Interpretation
A Robert Fitch essay offers a two fold view of religion as a spiritual telescope to view the universe. It champions faith that liberates action and trust in Christ yielding fellowship with God and spiritual gifts. Fitch, Occidental College philosopher and minister, is noted for sermons and books on ethical living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Fitch
Christ
Fitch
Occidental College
Pacific School of Religion
Berkeley
California
Congregational Church
GRG
What Religion Means to Me by Robert E Fitch
Professor Robert E Fitch argues religion centers on meaning and purpose, with Christianity as his specific focus. He defines religion as humanity’s search for the universe’s meaning, then outlines how Christian faith offers justice, truth, freedom, beauty, and love embodied in Christ and church fellowship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Fitch
Pacific School of Religion
Schopenhauer
God
Christ
General Convention Episcopal Church to Meet in San Francisco
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church will convene in San Francisco from September 26 to October 7. The gathering will include the House of Bishops clergy and lay delegates, with Archbishop Cyril Garbett of York invited to represent the Church of England adding notable interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Episcopal Church
San Francisco
House of Bishops
York
Cyril Forster Garbett
England
Church of England
Churches Push New Religious Enterprises
Reports this week from scattered areas show Protestant initiative in meeting spiritual needs of the community and making the impact of religion felt in daily life. The Pennsylvania Council of Churches organized migrant farm worker ministry in eastern Pennsylvania with three ministers aiding camps, services, recreation, and counseling. A DP camp in West Campton New Hampshire dedicated an international plaque. Ohio State Fair hosted a state approved nur sing and child care center and first all Ohio worship service. At Oswego County Fair in Sandy Creek a countywide church service opened the fair. New York State Fair in Syracuse featured a Council of Churches exhibit. In Laurel Mississippi a community prayer service aided the five month strike at Mesonite pulpwood plant, preceding settlement. Churches plan deeper religious impact, regular attendance, and broader evangelitarian effort at home and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
Pennsylvania
West Campton
N.H
America
D.P. Camp
Teacre
John M. Ratcliff
Tufts College School of Religion
Columbus
Ohio
Clinton Heights Lutheran Church
Sandy Creek
Oswego
Laurel-Ellisville Ministerial Association
Laurel
RNS
What the Churches Have Done
The Federal Council cites five achievements by churches in promoting world order and peace. They include lifting UN principles, fostering dignity and human rights, validating negotiated peace amid tensions, aiding development through missionary work, and the World Council of Churches unity offering spiritual resources for future challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Council
United Nations
Council
Tly
Churches
Living Fellowship
World Council of Churches
Danish Bishop Urges American Church Support for a New Europe
Dr Hans Fuglsang Damgaard, Bishop of Copenhagen, spoke in New York urging churches to unite against destructive forces. At a National Lutheran Council luncheon he praised American generosity toward Denmark and Europe under Nazi subjugation and called for ongoing American leadership to build a liberated postwar Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churches of America
New York
Hans Fuglsang Damgaard
Copenhagen
Church of
Denmark
Europe
Father Lombardi predicts fall of Communists and new Japanese university drive
In San Francisco Father Riccardo Lombardi argues atheistic Communism will not die by force but fade through prayer and Christian influence. In New York Joseph C. Grew launches a $10 million campaign for the Japan International Christian University near Tokyo with Dr. Hachiro Yuasa named president. opening planned for April 1851.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Lombardi
Japan
So Christian University
Russia
San Francisco
Riccardo Lombardi
S.J
Italy
Jesus
God
New York
Joseph C. Grew
Japan International Christian University
Grew
Tokyo
Hachiro Yuasa
Doshishan University
International Christian University
Top Ararat Find No Ark
Dr. Aaron Smith and four Americans reach about 24600 feet on Mount Ararat but find no trace of Noahs Ark. The expedition may end without relics to corroborate Genesis. The setback is framed as a lesson on faith not resting on literal relics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ararat
Istanbul
Aaron Smith
Mount Aarat
God
Go-to-Church Drives Planned in L A Area
A mass meeting at the Hollywood Bowl on October 2 promotes church unity with Screen stage and radio stars. Dr Rupert Gordon Sproul is honorary chairman. A September 25 giant tent crusade in Los Angeles aims to recruit 106000 volunteers for a city wide revival led by Christ for Greater Los Angeles Inc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood Bowl
Rupert Gordon Sproul
University of California
Los Angeles
Clifford F. Smith
Christ For Greater Los Angeles, Inc
Smith
Huge Bible Project Underway in Chicago Exposition
Chicago Bible Society gathers 20000 volunteers from all states and 15 countries to write the Old Testament at the Illinois Central New Orleans exhibition. Dr Frederick C Grant of Union Theological Seminary begins the New Testament with the first verse. The project aims for 31102 verses by 31022 contributors and completion by Oct 2 when the fair closes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Bible Society
New Orleans
Frederick C. Grant
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Grant
New Testament Bible Society
Deaths in Religion Mourned Amid Long Careers
Obituaries list prominent religious figures from diverse denominations. Geerhardus Vos, Dutch-born Princeton professor, dies at 87. John Stewart Burgess, Y workplace pioneer in Peiping, dies at 66. Charles Towson leading early YMCA services dies at 86. Cass Arthur Reed, pastor and college president, dies. Raymond F. Barnes, Episcopal treasurer since 1924. J R P Sclater, United Church moderator and pastor, dies at 71. Mrs Helen Springer, missionary bishop’s wife, dies. Mrs. Elfreda Bond Goodspeed, Bible scholar’s widow, dies at 69. other clergy and church leaders pass away in late August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geerhardus
Holland
Princeton Theological Seminary
John Stewart Burgess
Temple University
Peiping
Yenching University
Charles Towson
M.C.A International Committee
Cass Arthur Reed
Pomona, Cal
American International College of
Protestant Episcopal General Convention
J R. P. Sclater
United Church of Canada
St. Andrew's Church
Toronto
Edinburg
Helen Springer
John M. Springer
Africa
Belgian Congo
Herbert L. Witlett
Herbert L. Willett
University of Chicago
Christian Century
Robert L
Ralph Moore Timberlake
Massachusetts Congregational Conference
Clarence R. Skinner
Tufts College School of Religion
Universalist Church
Arthur J. Brunn
St. Peters Lutheran Church
Brooklyn
Lutheran
Archbishop of York to Speak at Hollywood Bowl Mass Meeting
Dr Cyril Forster Garbett Archbishop of York will be principal speaker at a mass meeting in Hollywood Bowl on Oct 4 sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. Charles Taft layman and past president of the Federal Council of Churches will also speak with a 500 voice choir providing music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyril Forster Garbett
York
Hollywood Bowl
Episcopal Diocese of
Los Angeles
Charles ©. Taft
Federal Council of Churches
Nations Want Us Spiritual Leadership
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt told 500 Southern church women in Atlanta that nations seek spiritual and moral leadership from the United States. She said Communism has shifted to waiting for world revolution and that democracy must persuade Europe and Asia’s downtrodden peoples. If Christians in America believe, they must face this responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Eleanor Roosevelt
Southern Church
Atlanta, Ga
Europe
America
Muriel Lester Tours Southern California Speaker of Peace Talks
Muriel Lester, noted lecturer and friend of Gandhi, wends a coast to coast speaking tour in the United States after a Europe India New Zealand Australia circuit. The Christian Century hails her as a vivid storyteller of peacefrontiers while she champions nonviolence and Indian leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mariel Lester
California
Gandhi
Kafawa
George Lansbury
Europe
India
New Zealand
Australia
United States
Mahatma
Miss Lester
German Laymen Appeal for Peace from Hannover Assembly
A peace message from the German Evangelical Week in Hannover July 28 to August 4 addresses Christians worldwide. It warns that displacement, POWs, abductions, and wartime requisitions threaten recovery and urges international Christian cooperation and prayer for a just peace and national unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannover
Missouri Synod reports new gains in 1938 yearbook
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod shows all time highs in 1938. Contributions across all purposes reached 51,390,482 dollars, up over five million from the prior year. Average per adult member was 44.87 dollars. Ministerial enrollments reached 92 at two seminaries. Total membership stood at 1,654,024 with 12,31 full time parochial school students and 3,010 pupils in nine high schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
More Student Interest in Spiritual Problems
Dr. Victor L. Butterfield of Wesleyan University told the National Council on Religion in Higher Education meeting in Meadville Pennsylvania that student interest in spiritual problems is more genuine and intense than a decade ago. He linked education to religious insight and noted improved student attitudes toward learning alongside growing suspicion of traditional religious forms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor L. Butterfield
Wesleyan University
National Council On Religion In Higher Education
Meadville
Theologian Blames Churches for Peace Failures
Dr. John Bennett of Union Theological Seminary criticizes America’s churches and the United Nations for failing to provide clear guidance on atomic weapons and to bridge East West rifts. He proposes a five point Christian approach emphasizing spiritual resistance to communism, avoiding holy war, supporting anti poverty and discrimination efforts, opposing Communism as a faith, and keeping military action secondary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
America
Russia
West
John Bennett
Union Theological Seminary
United Nations
Science, Philosophy and Religion
Columbia University
Bennett
Bennet
Europe
Asia
Africa
South America
Priests Reject Church Rule Protest in Czechoslovakia
Church informants report that about 4200 priests signed a defiant declaration condemning a proposed church law. The rule would place appointments finances and administration under state control. Seventy percent of Catholic clergy have already signed the protest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Czechoslovakia
Mirror of Opinion The Church in China Under the Reds
J C Chao argues the Chinese Christian church, though a small minority, must endure amid financial and readership challenges. It should confront its own sins and revitalize itself, becoming a true Church of God rooted in loyalty to Christ and its gospel, while avoiding reliance on external forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
J. C. Chao
Yenching University
Church
Christ
Church of God
No conflict between patriotism and UN service says diplomat
The speaker argues patriotism and UN work are harmonized, stating the UN aims to serve all nations, not a single country. He hopes the mission succeeds through peaceful ballots, while acknowledging that direct state-to-state negotiations remain the best path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.N
Segregation in the Church Editorial Stirs Episcopal Voice
The Living Church recounts a Washington church incident where a Negro worshipper received a note directing him to another church. It argues that 67,000 colored Episcopalians face exclusion in many parishes and calls for decisive action by both houses of the church governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Episcopal Church
House of Deputies
House of Bishops
Also Mentioned on This Page
Robert
Maltbie D. Bab
Robert E, Fitch
U.S
L.A
Archbishop of York
Muriel Lester
Missouri Synod
Mirror of
Chester W. Nimitz
U. S
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!