Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that you to whom the governments have intrusted the high mission of continuing what was commenced at Washington are . . . animated with a noble inspiration and resolve to remove once and for all this particular obstacle [naval armaments] from the path of order and civilized progress...
...time, 60 Red sailors and their officers arrived in Boston last week, ready to take over the first two ships to leave drydock. The sailors were quartered in the slightly sanctimonious St. Mary's House for Sailors, operated by Archdeacon Ernest J. Dennen of the Episcopal City Mission of Boston. Officers were sent to the slightly more pretentious Crawford house. When the Red seamen rebelled at this class distinction, officers and men together were moved to Immigrant Home, a Methodist Mission. Experienced Episcopal Archdeacon Dennen took over the management of Immigrant Home from his Methodist brethren for the length...
...Noble lectures were founded in 1897 by Mrs. Noble in memory of her husband who was an Episcopal clergyman. Her purpose in establishing the fund for these lectures was to continue the influence and mission of her husband as a minister, and to arouse the interest of Harvard students in the Christian ministry...
...fairly vibrated with optimistic statements. Said Statesman Stimson: "We start out with high hopes of bringing our mission to a successful conclusion." Declared Delegate Reed: "I am sure of ultimate success. . . . There'll be less intrigue, less so-called diplomacy at this conference than at any international meeting heretofore." Admiral Pratt, a technical adviser, declared there were no technical difficulties, added: "We should sail for home with an agreement within two months...
Modern missionaries lead safe lives; the years are long past when cannibals ate them. But at the Africa Inland Mission Station in Kijabe is a little dwelling some 300 yards from the rest of the buildings. Hulda Stumpf, Secretary to the Head Missionary, lived there alone. She was 63, had been in Kijabe for 20 years. She had grown deaf in the Lord's service. Last week her body was found, attacked, bruised, smothered to death...