Word: macartney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kill That Tiger! The xenophobia that in 1793 led the Emperor Ch'ien Lung to consider British Ambassador Lord Macartney a "Red barbarian bearing tribute," is still very much alive in China. "Westerners," says Foreign Minister Chen Yi, smiling faintly, "used to say Chinese were dirty. We were called an inferior race. Are we inferior...
...Clarence Macartney thinks "modernism [in the U.S.] is not nearly so belligerent as it was. The barrenness of it has been demonstrated [TIME, July 21]." Demonstrated by whom, when, where? Dr. Macartney's statement is one that sounds good if you say it quickly, but won't stand examination. To consider only one example, let's look at Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the missionary in the Belgian Congo. While Pastor Macartney has been preaching to congregations of educated, cultured people, some of whom doubtless are fairly wealthy, Dr. Schweitzer ministers to African natives untaught in the ways...
Souls First. Not far from retirement now, Pastor Macartney, 72, is slightly less pessimistic about the state of the church in the U.S. than he once was. "Modernism," he says, "is not nearly so belligerent as it was. The barrenness of it has been demonstrated." But, to a man strong in the fundamentals of the Gospel, the kid-glove handling of the question of sin in many U.S. pulpits is still hard to take. Says Macartney: "One reason why we have so few conversions is that we don't ask people to repent...
Said Clarence Macartney...
...four sons became ministers. The others: the Rev. J. Robertson Macartney, pastor emeritus of the Palm Springs (Calif.) Presbyterian Church; the Rev. Albert J. McCartney, pastor emeritus of Washington's National Presbyterian Church; the late Rev. Ernest McCartney of Los Angeles...