Word: christian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chao Tse-chen is also something of a modern Christian prophet. When the Communist army entered Peiping in January and so insured its control over North China, Christians in China and throughout the world began wringing their hands. But not Dr. Chao. He wrote and circulated privately among his fellow Christians his own call to Christian battle. This week, U.S. churchmen had an opportunity to read one of these articles: Excerpts...
...Dressing-up. "Just now, not a few of the reverends are at a loss to know how even to carry on the routine . . . They do not know that Christianity has no new message and that the Christian message is always a dangerous thing to impart. But one should not blame them for their sincere uncertainties. The message needs a new dressing-up, and this new dressing-up is in their own Christian living. They need a careful re-education...
...lesson need be learned to divest the Christian mind of bourgeoisie habits of complacency, of class consciousness, of the fear of change and revolution . . . Preaching stations that cannot be effectively maintained may be discontinued. Inefficient clergymen may be advised to discover their livelihood in other services...
...political contributions became a national scandal, but he successfully defied congressional committees that sought to bring him to heel. Once he walked out of a public hearing after refusing to testify. Brought before both civil and ecclesiastical courts he always got off scot free, though only his plea for Christian forgiveness saved him from the wrath of fellow churchmen...
...alcohol by legislation in his native state (1914), did as much as any man to bring prohibition to the U.S. Like many of his contemporaries who believed that morality could be legislated, he periodically struck out at lesser demons. Dancing, tobacco, Coca-Cola and even football ("neither manly nor Christian") felt his indignant lash. But in 1930, this paragon of virtue, by then long a bishop and according to H. L. Mencken "the most powerful ecclesiastic ever heard of in America," was accused by the elders of his own church of immorality, bucketshop gambling, flour-hoarding (during World...