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...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...
...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 by various denominations...
PHILIPPINES (19 million Christians). Chief troubles besetting the estimated 2,000,000 Protestants are about 17 million Roman Catholics, whose priests, says Gill, oppress the people and oppose the growth of Protestantism with intimidation and physical violence: and the "freehand, fly-by-night missionaries sent out by pentecostal churches, by fundamentalist societies, by their own perfervid wills." Gill also casts a skeptical eye on the nondenominational. evangelical Philippines Crusade, which sprang up in the wake of Billy Graham's 1956 tour through Southeast Asia. The evangelists, he says, are a ticking time bomb. "The doctrinal havoc, the personal tensions...
...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...
...crisp, dialogue-filled pages. Author Gill has drawn a recognizable portrait of a fast-talking, flip and money-hungry operator, but when he reaches for a deeper meaning in Charlie's woes, he reaches into emptiness. As a novel or play, the book must stand in the shadow of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, since both take the rigid form of a one-day revelation of a family's sins and strength. But here is no passionate view of the tragedy of life: easy optimism and shallow hope bubble...