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Career: His father Hiram, descendant of Thomas Bingham, Connecticut settler of 1650, was a pioneer missionary in the Gilbert Islands. While Bingham Sr. pushed deep into the tropic wilderness to translate the Bible into heathen dialects, his son remained in Hawaiian schools. He was sent to the U. S. at 18, was graduated from Yale in 1898, returned to Hawaii to serve briefly as superintendent of Palama Chapel Mission, as chemist at Molokai for American Sugar Co. A year later he returned to the U. S., studied at the University of California, at Harvard. Equipped with a Harvard...
...front line of the Christian ministry no longer is in the so-called heathen lands. It runs through the heart of 20th Century civilization. It is on Fifth Avenue and on Broadway, and not in darkest Africa, that the Christian Church will live her abundant life or sink to mediocrity. Is Christ the Son of the Living God? What of the great confession of Peter?*... It is the Christ of Peter's stupendous affirmation who can and will save man and man's society. Only He is the world-sufficient Saviour. In Him, our schisms shall at last...
Good Scotch Calvinists disapprove of Christmas, consider Christmas trees and Christmas presents to be popish and heathen things, savoring of idolatry. Scotch bairns wait for their toys till Hogmanay, New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve last week, Paisley children were up with the dawn, shouting under housewives' windows...
...bundles to countless far-flung civilian Jacks. Toms, Ikes, Petes. The year had been generous at home but many a son could not be present to share its holiday rewards. When other U. S. citizens were turning homeward for the year's greatest family celebration, Jack was converting heathen on Luzon, Tom was selling Standard Oil up the Yangtze, Ike was with National City Bank at Bombay, Pete was peddling vacuum cleaners out of Stockholm?all manifesting the U. S. Empire invisible...
...tense, whispered conference with Liberal David Lloyd George. If the Welshman agreed to go in with Baldwin, as he did fortnight ago on the picayune messenger boys issue (TIME, Dec. 9), then the MacDonald Cabinet was as good as done. But Mr. Lloyd George is peculiar. Like the Heathen Chinee, he and his Liberals sat impassive, refused to go into either division lobby, abstained from voting. Scowling, the Conservatives followed the Clydesiders; scowling blacker the regular Laborites filed into the Government's lobby. The result looked grave. Scot MacDonald, who weathered the messenger boy crisis with a majority...