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Bibles & Battles. When young, westward-looking Governor Kiyotaka Kuroda summoned Clark to set up an agricultural college at Sapporo, capital of Hokkaido-Japanese students returning from Massachusetts had recommended Clark reverently-the island was only a few steps from wilderness. To Congregationalist Clark, the wilderness was a God-sent challenge; he kissed his wife and eleven children goodbye and set out-with 50 Bibles in his luggage...
...hairy-handed frontier town of Elyria, Ohio came the Rev. John Jay Shipherd to join battle with the Devil. The struggle lasted three years and was foredoomed; faster than Congregationalist Shipherd could preach the old time religion, Elyria's storekeepers passed out free whisky to boost trade. The Rev. Mr. Shipherd abandoned the town to its wickedness and with one disciple, the Rev. Philo Penfield Stewart, set out into north Ohio's dense elm forest. On swampy ground, a safe nine miles away, he founded Oberlin College...
Demythologization? In the last half-century, said Dr. Wilhelm Pauck, a Congregationalist and professor of church history at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Christianity has suffered serious blows: 1) in terms of influence, it has become a minority movement in the world, and 2) the faithful have deserted organized churches in droves. In short, "Christianity stands at the fringe of the common life today. It no longer shapes it." What happened? According to Dr. Pauck, the fault lies with the churches, which "have refused to demythologize the Gospel . . . They have lost the people because they do not speak...
Real Fellowship. Glenview Community Church is 17 years old, and when Congregationalist Minister Robert Edgar went there in 1941, it had only 50 members in a community of 2,000 people. Today the community has mushroomed to 16,000, and the church estimates its adult membership at 2,000, with an additional 1,500 who have not yet joined but take part in church activities. Some 2,200 youngsters engage the full-time efforts of two of the four ministers-Methodist-ordained Clinton Ritchie, who handles the teenagers, and Baptist-ordained Theophilus Ringsmuth. who concentrates on the youngsters below...
Back to the 19th Century? The Congregationalist president of Amherst College, Charles Woolsey Cole, takes a more hopeful view of the phenomenon-at least at college level. In Harper's he writes: "Youth at present is almost completely monogamous in a thoroughly established fashion, and it is aggressively sure that its customs and ways are right...