Word: mission
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suburban Montreal last week mechanics were outfitting a sturdy plane for a special mission. The plane, a type designed for use in Canada's own North country, had been ordered by Sir Miles Clifford, governor of the Falkland Islands. It would stand by as part of the plan to rescue eleven men marooned on Stonington Island inside the Antarctic Circle...
Under Africa's threatening skies, Pope sees the Christian missions as facing many critical decisions. Foremost is the question of the schools. "The situation in Southern Rhodesia illustrates it. There the government pays most of the bill of those Protestant and Catholic mission schools which meet government standards, instead of providing universal free education. Under this system, about a third of the children are in school. If the missions turn education.over to the government, it would have to be provided for everyone, and it would cost three times as much. But the missionaries are worried about doing this because...
...Missionary. Pope concluded that many Africans do not expect much help from the missions on the road to equality. "In fact, they often look upon the missions as in the camp of the opposition, due to the white control of the mission program and arrangements whereby governments support mission schools...
...workers of the Canadian Baptist Mission have spread good works across the windswept barrens of the Bolivian altiplano. The mission has built schools and hospitals for the poverty-haunted tin miners to whom it ministers, given out free medicines, taught converts to speak
Faith in Reverse. The absolute atheists, says Maritain, are represented today chiefly by the academic high fashion of existentialism and the militant mission of Communism. For them, he says, the casting aside of God is "a basic act of moral choice." It is, in other words, an act of faith in reverse which, in pretending to deny religion, "is a full-blown religious commitment." But it is a tragic failure. Example: the Communist, whose atheism begins as a declaration of independence, plunges into a new slavery "to a worldly demiurge crazy for human minds to bend and bow and yield...