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...here, 1,700 missionaries of 30 Protestant denominations are directing 12,000 schools with 400,000 pupils and nearly 200 hospitals and dispensaries. They are all united in one body-the Congo Protestant Council. "They baptize into one church, the Church of Christ in the Congo, one of the finest examples of Christian cooperation on earth. And they have 600,000 church members, plus 300,000 inquirers, out of a population of some 12 million...
Pregnancy Preferred. The problems that beset the missions, Dr. Van Dusen found, are both old & new. The old problem of teaching sexual morality is still bafflingly difficult-especially in Africa, with its tradition of multiple marriage and its placid view of premarital and extramarital sexual relations. "One of our finest missionary nurses told me," he wrote back to friends, "that her African student nurses welcome pregnancy since it makes them more readily marriageable . . . The Paris Mission has projected a large boarding school to take little girls between six and eight years of age and keep them without ever letting them...
...months later) was holding a mess tin with some scraps of food in it, and weeping as he watched his men fall. He turned to a U.S. correspondent beside him. "You'll forgive me for saying so, sir," he said, "but the British soldier is the finest fighting man there is." Then he tucked his swagger stick under his arm and strode off to lead the second wave up the ridge...
...class one day in 1854, Cadet James Abbot Whistler was asked to discuss silicon. He began: "Silicon is a gas." "That will do, Mr. Whistler," said the professor-and shortly thereafter Cadet Whistler was handed his discharge papers. In later years, when he had made himself one of the finest painters of his day, he liked to say: "If silicon had been a gas, I would have been a general...
...Last week, as Joseph Stalin lay unconscious, cerebral hemorrhage brought death to Sergei Prokofiev at 61. In a Moscow all but preoccupied with the death of the dictator, thousands filed into Composers Hall, where his body lay in state, to pay a tribute to the Soviet Union's finest composer...