Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called "Republic of the South Moluccas." At the head of last week's bloodless coup, however, was no sworn foe of the government but one of President Sukarno's favorites-handsome, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual. A onetime sergeant in the Dutch army, and a Christian, who won Sukarno's affections while serving as his bodyguard. Colonel Sumual had the backing of 51 East Indonesian political and military leaders...
...seminary there were classes in missions, with emphasis on the length and breadth of this globe-girdling enterprise." Thus the Rev. Theodore A. Gill. 37. managing editor of the Christian Century, describes his personal background for a four-month trip around the world last year to see at first hand what the Protestant missionary enterprise is really like. In the current Christian Century, Presbyterian Gill concludes an eight-part report on the countries of Southeast Asia-the area chosen by the National Council of Churches' Board of Foreign Missions for special study during 1957. Gist of his report...
HONG KONG (140,000 Christians, 45,000 Protestants). This is the last citadel of British colonialism, and "for those who would understand what is behind the rest of Asia's anticolonial frenzy. Hong Kong is the place to get a bellyful of the original offense." But the British have turned generously to help the 667,000 refugees from Communist China. So have the Christian missions from the U.S.. "healing, counseling, running schools, staffing nurseries, opening clinics, building family centers." The most valuable mission activity in terms of the future, says Gill, is being done on university campuses supported...
THAILAND (100,000 Christians, an estimated 20,000 of them Protestants"). "Lovely, smiling, shapely people in their fascinating, glittering, flowery land." who bend gently before the harsh winds from outside and so seem impervious to them. This lotusland temperament is the chief obstacle to the Gospel. "Couldn't you almost say that Christianity has its hardest time with people who are nicest? . . . The Christian news has a hard time coming as good news to people who are not themselves torn by the rifts in the world, who are not deeply agitated about what may be wrong with them...
Reporter Gill's prescription for Protestantism: "Mission must be rescued from its relegation to one special vocation and reinhabited as the basic description of all Christian life. And meanwhile, the comfortable 'missionary' illusions too many of us have been relaxing in must be ruthlessly exposed . . . We have much to be proud of, and it is a good thing we do; anything less, and there would be nothing to talk about...