Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members. The Japanese Government feels less sure of Koreans than it does of Japanese, worries more about their exposure to Occidental influences. Increasingly in the past five years, beginning when Shinto services were held for soldiers dead in China and Manchukuo, the Government has put pressure upon Korean Christians to join in what it calls "patriotic" ceremonies at Shinto shrines. Christian teachers have been ordered to take their Christian classes to the shrines, join in observances which involve obeisance to the departed. Last straw came when Korean Presbyterian churches were recently ordered to join in visits to the shrines...
...During all the years prior to the present Administration," said the report, "the story of the progress of the red men in adopting standards of Christian civilization stands out ... as an impressive illustration of the effectiveness of co-operative effort and sympathetic understanding between the forces representing the church in America and the governmental agencies." By contrast, the report cited Commissioner Collier's well-known policy of helping Indians to "turn back to their so-called ancient cultures, and to revive pagan practices and ceremonies of the pre-Columbian era." This "appears to the Christian forces of America...
...interpretation which would be news to U. S. Jews, U. S. pagans. The Constitution says nothing about the U. S. being a Christian nation...
Since the Chinese knew that powerful Japanese rescue forces were on the way from Tsingtao and Tientsin via Tsinan, beating their way down railways harassed by Chinese Communist guerillas, Yihsien had to be captured quickly if at all. Therefore some Chinese Christian soldiers formed on the spot "The Good Friday Battalion," vowed to take Yihsien before Easter Sunday or die in the attempt...
John Henry Weer C.S. of Brookline, Massachusetts will deliver a lecture entitled "Christian Science--Operative Christianity" tomorrow at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House Members of the University and their friends are cordially invited to attend...