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This week in Zion's Herald, New England Methodist weekly, appears the first interview with Dr. Ambedkar to be published in the U. S. since he made his Nasik speech. To get it, able Editor Lewis Oliver Hartman went to India, sought out its No. 1 Untouchable, plied him with practical questions. Wrote the editor of Zion's Herald...
...pointed out in answer that, so far as the Methodist Episcopal Church was concerned, our watchword was this: 'Nothing that has to do with human welfare is foreign to Methodism.' This seemed to please him. . . ." Of Hinduism the man whom Editor Hartman calls "India's Lincoln" said: "Hinduism is not a religion; it is a disease...
...broader significance is the trend discernible in the Church League for Industrial Democracy's actions. In recent years bishops and elder statesmen of such churches as the Methodist and the Episcopal have issued long, vague, liberal pronouncements at their annual gatherings. By last week it was observable that young, zealous churchmen were attempting to put their elders' perfunctory liberal views into what in the churches passes for action...
...greatly aided General Chiang to get his start; that perhaps without them he would never have conquered all China, become a Generalissimo, turned against Communism, put aside his non-Christian first wife, married a delightful Chinese graduate of Wellesley who writes stories & poems for Asia, and himself turned devout Methodist. In Leningrad last week up spoke the Generalissimo's son by his cast-off non-Christian wife, Mr. Chiang Chin-ko, a Chinese now studying hard how to make Revolution. "Mother, I am ashamed before the Chinese people of such a father!" He declared in an open letter...
...Chancery Court last week Advisory Master Robert Grosman awarded a divorce and the children to Methodist Eaton granted to Mrs. Eaton the privilege oi visiting her progeny unless she attempted to "instill her atheistic and communistic beliefs" in their minds. Decided the Advisory Master: "She frankly states that she no longer considers herself a Christian She looks on all religion as useless and entertains the deepest contempt for that of her husband...