Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though they feared and hated all foreigners, the Japanese called grave, spectacled Dr. Hepburn "Kunshi" (Honored Sir). For 32 years he worked among them as doctor and minister of Christ, but for many years his work as a missionary had to be carefully hidden. While working long hours at his dispensary, he found time to compile the first Japanese-English dictionary, which was so much in demand that three years after its publication copies were selling for as much as $62. The system of transliteration which he invented is still used to convert Japanese characters into Roman letters...
...order to encourage interest in the annual Christmas story contest, $25 will be awarded the prize winning manuscript. Another change in the Christmas program will be the revival of the candle-light service in Christ Chapel prior to the refreshments and entertainment...
Baltimore's big (1,200 membership), Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church announced that it had selected a co-pastor who was not a Methodist and did not expect him to change from his present denomination, Disciples of Christ...
...committee in charge of the Memorial Fund is headed by Reverend Kellogg, chaplain to Episcopal Students and Rector of Christ Church. Other members of the committee are Professor I. A. Richards, F. O. Matthlessen, and Perry G. E. Miller, Associate Professor Harry T. Levin, and Mrs. Ellery Sedgwick...
...idea of God as Creator, says Barth, is not, as generally thought, an easily accepted article of the Creed on which "Christians, Jews and Gentiles, believers and unbelievers ... to some extent stand together." God as Creator is a mystery as difficult of comprehension as the belief that Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin. "The existence of the creature alongside God is the great puzzle and miracle ... It is the genuine question about existence, which is essentially and fundamentally distinguished from the question which rests upon error, 'Is there a God?' That...