Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still followed by eager seekers asking "Where is He?" Christ's mission on earth was a missionary enterprise: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations. . . . Conscious of this command, and its full implications in an increasingly un-Christian world, on Christmas Day many a Western-Christian looked toward India, where, at Madras Christian College, 450 Christian men and women from 65 nations were gathered last week...
...Ashram (retreat) in Lucknow, India is the spiritual home, and sometimes the physical home, of the world's greatest Christian missionary-Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, Methodist, author of The Christ of the Indian Road, evangelist to high-caste Hindus, who call him Rishi (a saint). From his Ashram last summer Dr. Jones wrote his friends about the Kingdom of God, declaring: "Never have I been so convinced that this is the one hope of the human race. How my heart tingles with joy that we have such a message for such a time as this." Missionary Jones then left...
...society sent to India one of the most famed missionaries of all time, Isabella Thoburn. For her it named Asia's first college for women-in Lucknow, India. It dispatched to the East the first U. S. woman doctor, Clara Swain. Today the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, spending some $1,500,000 a year on 5,500 missionaries, Bible women and other workers in 17 lands, is the largest U. S. organization of its kind. Last week, not without some pangs and misgivings, it faced the prospect of losing its identity-in the impending merger...
Fourteen miles east of Puerto Rico's San Juan harbor is the wooded, 36-acre island of Santiago. There 500 macaques, or rhesus monkeys, landed last week, having voyaged 14,000 miles from India in 51 days. Columbia University intends to establish on Santiago a "free-ranging primate colony." Purpose: research on primate behavior, glands, reproduction and tropical diseases. As from Alcatraz, the only mode of escape from Santiago is by swimming...
...Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Joseph R. McLoughlin '41, of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania; Dale H. Maple '41, San Diego, California; Henry W. Maxwell, Jr. '41, of Hinsdale, Illinois; Clare L. Milton, Jr. '39, of St. Joseph, Michigan; David B. Mitchell '40, of Campbellsville, Kentucky; Elbert M. Moffat, Jr. '41, of Bombay, India...