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...seminary heads (including Yale, Chicago, Princeton, Colgate-Rochester), eight college and university presidents (including Princeton's Harold W. Dodds), practically all the ranking officials of the Federal Council and a group of well-known laymen, including John R. Mott, Irving Fisher and Harvey S. Firestone Jr. "Intellectually," said Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of Texas, "this is the most distinguished American church gathering I have seen in 30 years of conference-going...
...This week Methodist Chaplain Ralph D. Brown, recently awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery in carrying the wounded off Clark Field during continual bombings, penciled the following words to Chaplain Perry L. Wilcox on a crumpled sheet of his field notebook: 'Dear Chaplain-I will sincerely appreciate the case of New Testaments I spoke to you about when we met in Bataan. I have hundreds of boys begging for them each week. I am now en route to the -- corps who have suffered heavy casualties this week. They need Scriptures badly-any you don't need will...
...years U.S. Protestantism will have to get along without the active help of its most famous organizer and greatest money-raiser. John R. Mott's resignation as chairman of the International Missionary Council became effective at once, and his place is being filled temporarily by liberal, mission-wise Methodist Bishop James Chamberlain Baker of Los Angeles...
...Roseville Methodist Church in Newark, N.J. Mrs. Amelia Carr was a constant ray of sunshine. Almost daily her liveried chauffeur took her to visit the sick in the parish. She was a generous contributor to charity. When her 71-year-old husband took ill, she prayed at his bedside, devotedly nursed him back to health...
First stray reports on U.S. missionaries in the path of Japan: Methodists said all their workers in Manila had been safely "evacuated to the mountain resort of Baguio" (which the Japs took five days later); five Catholics seized near Hong Kong were escorted by the Japanese to nearby Portuguese Macao and released; 16 missionaries headed by Methodist Bishop Ralph A. Ward reached Free China safely after fleeing from the occupied zone; one famed missionary, President J. Leighton Stuart of Yenching University, near Peking, was put into "honorable confinement...