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Christianity's greatest missionary, St. Paul, had his hands full keeping in touch with a scattering of churches along the shores of the Mediterranean. When the president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Henry P. Van Dusen, took a few months off early this year for some churchly visitation he calmly set out to visit church groups on four continents and in 20 countries, a trip of some 40,000 miles.* Last week in a sermon at Wellesley College, Dr. Van Dusen reported what he had found on his "plane's-eye view of Christianity around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Plane's-Eye View | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Head-Hunters & Hospitals. Everywhere he went, said Dr. Van Dusen, the Christian church was "the one resourceful, untiring, dauntless ministrant to human need-human need of all kinds." The old-fashioned picture of the missionary as a "well-intentioned but rather commonplace preacher, a Bible in one hand and an umbrella in the other, standing under a palm tree exhorting half-naked savages to discard their heathen ways" is as out of date as the daguerreotype. The typical Christian mission today is a center of three or four buildings-a hospital, a school, a church-from which a team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Plane's-Eye View | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Besides the greatly strengthened defense, the Ephs have a powerful attack setup, centered mostly around a couple of top-notch attackmen, Dave Harrison and brilliant creaseman Bruce Van Dusen...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Lacrosse Team Goes to Play Improved Williams Today | 5/10/1952 | See Source »

WILLIAMS: Starke, goal; L'Hommedieu, Palmer, Bayer, defense; Curtis, Murphy, Shudt, midfield; Van Dusen, Donaho, Mitchell, attack...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Lacrosse Team Goes to Play Improved Williams Today | 5/10/1952 | See Source »

HENRY P. VAN DUSEN Union Theological Seminary New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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