Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ashram (retreat) in Lucknow, India is the spiritual home, and sometimes the physical home, of the world's greatest Christian missionary-Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, Methodist, author of The Christ of the Indian Road, evangelist to high-caste Hindus, who call him Rishi (a saint). From his Ashram last summer Dr. Jones wrote his friends about the Kingdom of God, declaring: "Never have I been so convinced that this is the one hope of the human race. How my heart tingles with joy that we have such a message for such a time as this." Missionary Jones then left...
...Christian Mission, most vigorous evangelistic onslaught on college youth in a generation, brought Dr. Jones and his dynamic, intensely personal message to a dozen State universities. Last week, looking weary from his labors, he sailed for Europe. Thence he will make a four-day airplane dash to Madras, where this month meets an international missionary conference of high import...
...students. Results to date, while they have not included a general increase in churchgoing in the colleges, have borne out what the missioners felt at the beginning of their tour-that "American students are in a mood of vague wistfulness and are open to a vital presentation of the Christian message...
...Society, an independent body, churchmen tried to persuade them to let it be administered by men, who knew about such things. But the women stuck to their purpose, which was "engaging and uniting the efforts of the women of the Church in sending out and supporting female missionaries, native Christian teachers and Bible women in foreign lands...
Probably four boards will remain: Education, Home Missions, Foreign Missions, Christian Work for Women. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society will have to join with one of the last two. Last fortnight its president of the past 17 years, soft-spoken Mrs. Evelyn Riley Nicholson of Mount Vernon, Iowa, voiced a plea not only for the members of her society but for Methodist women in general : "We implore that you not relegate our activities to a subsidiary position to men's work in such a way as to limit us." While Methodist committees last week explored ways & means...