Word: mission
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scandinavian Scandal. In 1924 Rev. Mr. Ingerslev, head of the Central Methodist Mission in Scandinavia, charged that Dr. Anton Bast, Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Scandinavia, had fraudulently converted vast church moneys. The Methodist Conference of Denmark excommunicated the complainant. Dr. Bast was locked in jail without bail for four months until five officials of the U. S. Methodist Episcopal Church arrived in Copenhagen and got him released on bail (December, 1924). Last January the Public Prosecutor finally had him indicted on nine counts for the conversion of 635,000 kronen ($165,000). By jury trial last week he was found...
...Yale in China movement is the greatest mission work that has ever been undertaken by any University in the world," Dr. Brewer Eddy of the American Board of Foreign Missions told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Yale is the only university which seems able to sustain such a work on a high plane of excellence and efficiency. The institution itself which is maintained entirely by the endowments of Yale men and the efforts of young graduates, as teachers and doctors, exerts a large influence throughout the southern part of China where it is located...
...Ambassador Prince Antoine Bibesco called upon the President to pay a parting visit, for he has been recalled to Roumania. His recall is supposed to have been occasioned by a quarrel with M. Titulesco, who headed the Roumanian debt mission to this country in the fall...
...shocked comments so far have come from Carl Milliken, Portland, Me., President of the Northern Baptist Convention; Rev. E. Y. Mullins, Louisville, Ky., President of the Baptist World Alliance; Fred T. Field, Boston, Mass., of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, No. 276 Fifth Ave., Manhattan; President A. M. Bailey of the American Baptist Publication Society at 1701 Chestnut St.; F. W. Freeman, President of the American Baptist Home Mission Society, Manhattan; Rev. C. W. Atwater, President of the Baptist Young People's Union of America, Chicago, Ill; or from President C. D. Gray of Bates College, Lewiston...
...room seating 2,000, above 4,500 hotel rooms which will rent for not more than $21 weekly, and on its top (65th) story a hospital. Within it drinking and smoking, and possibly Sunday journals, will be forbidden. Ten percent of its earnings will go to support a medical mission at Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa. The builder is a realtor named Oscar E. Konkle. The site is close to those of the Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, International House and the site of the proposed Park Avenue Baptist Church...