Word: christianly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in the French Concession at Shanghai two Chinese disguised as orange peddlers assassinated one of China's leading businessmen and her leading Christian philanthropist. Joseph Lo Pa-hong, Knight of the French Legion of Honor, Papal Knight-Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester, etc. Last November 11, the Catholic sisters of Maryknoll, Ossining, N. Y., received a cable from the sisters of their Mercy Hospital for the Insane near Shanghai reading: "Can you send money for food? Lo bankrupt." Mr. Lo, who had long supported Mercy Hospital, had slid from being one of the richest...
...made his way to power, proceeded to court pretty, educated, high-minded Soong Meiling. Her brother, Mr. T. V. Soong, today China's greatest financier, informed General Chiang as courteously as possible that a husband with concubines was scarcely acceptable as a suitor in the Chinese Christian family of Soong. Mei-ling's father, famed "Old Charlie" Soong, had made his fortune as a pioneer in printing and selling Bibles to Chinese as fast as the missionaries created a demand. Investing his profits at about 40% Chinese interest, he died a merchant prince. Old Mrs. Soong...
Venerable Mother Soong therefore told General Chiang that if he would become a Christian he could marry her attractive, Wellesley-graduated Meiling. The Conqueror replied that he would not adopt a new religion merely to win a bride, but that if Miss Soong would marry him he would agree to study Christianity, and then do as he saw fit. No ordained Christian pastor could be found who thought General Chiang free to marry Miss Soong, so a lay Y.M.C.A. secretary united them in holy matrimony. From the day General Chiang thus took his No. 2 wife, both his character...
...Christian churches in Germany have taken such a beating from the Nazi regime in 1937 that good Nazi adherents had begun to wonder whether it would be politically safe this year for them to celebrate Christmas. Taking up this vital question, Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Adolf Hitler's black-uniformed Special Guard, which consistently baits Jews, Catholics, Protestants, last week assured Germans that they might observe Christmas without being guilty of "unGerman practices," It asserted: "Christmas is no intellectual property of the Christian confessions. They simply borrowed it without asking permission. . . . This holiday is the exclusive property...
...sent him $1, Father Cox mailed a "St. Christopher Miraculous Medal" and a blank on which to suggest three names for the garden of St. Patrick's Church. The priest hired a promoter, one B. J. Clifford of Cleveland, and 25,000 people entered the contest. Said the Christian Century, best-edited U. S. Protestant weekly: "Not even a 'miraculous medal' can perform the miracle of transforming this sort of traffic into anything other than a disgrace to the church...