Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GREAT OFFENSIVE-Maurice Hindus-Smith & Haas...
...sponsored by no less than 84 different denominational boards, set out last September for a tour of 29 major U.S. cities. Everywhere, audiences crowded upon them-a total last week of 300,000 people. Heading the team were Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, famed as an evangelist to high caste Hindus and author of Christ of the Indian Road, and Hankow's Bishop Logan Herbert Roots, able and deeply beloved churchman. Potent speakers have also been President Herman Chen-en Liu of Shanghai University, whose grandfather became a Christian: well-poised Miss Wu, whom all China knows as president...
...Hindus makes no pretence of packing the whole Communist problem into the confines of one book. The strictly philosophical and economic aspects of Russia are largely omitted; except for a digression on the extent of the country's natural resources and a sketchy resume of the Five Year Plan, the book keeps pretty closely to the "human relations' side of it, in many ways resembling very strikingly Ella Winter's "Red Virtue." It scope ranges from anecdotes of peasant life and collective struggles through a discussion of morality, prostitution, art, jails, the army and other points to a travelogue...
...most interesting chapters is "The Last Stand," in which Hindus indicates quite shrewdly the reasons why Protestantism was doomed almost from the beginning. It was nurtured during the early days of the Revolution because of its antagonism toward the Greek Catholic Church whose grip the Bolsheviks were intent upon breaking; but the honeymoon was soon ended. For it became cleared as the Protestant movement developed that its emphasis on the priority of the individual soul, on the recompenses of the Life of Come, on the sacredness of gospels which the Soviet materialists considered so much eye-wash, on the precedence...
...Great Offensive," despite its unacademic style and journalistic presentation, is an authoritative study of Russia up to the fall of 1933. These who have read Hindus's previous books will find, perhaps, considerable repetition of subject-matter; but each month calls for a new interpretation of this quickly-changing country. As Ella Winter never tires of repeating, every Russian "fact" should have a date attached; tomorrow it may be no fact at all, or at least a greatly altered one. It there are to be successors to "The Great Offensive" in years to come, it would be well for them...