Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gregory, editor since 1919, retired. In 45 years of association with Nature, Sir Richard became one of the Grand Old Men of world science. Last week he visited the U. S. as a sort of goodwill envoy of British learning, making speeches on the philosophy of science and its mission in a disquieted world. This week Sir Richard is scheduled to speak at the winter meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Richmond, where he will undoubtedly be lionized...
...vigorously for the return of Vilna* to Lithuania that Poland's late gruff old Marshal Pilsudski finally asked him point-blank in a League council meeting: "Is it peace or war?" Also of interest to Hitler is the fact that Valdemaras was associated in 1917 with a Ukrainian Mission which came to Berlin seeking German backing for an independent Ukrainian state, an idea that suits Germany today...
...nominally Christianized western world, Christianity might sometimes seem an old, unhappy, far-off thing; but in the East, the bright star still went before, was still followed by eager seekers asking "Where is He?" Christ's mission on earth was a missionary enterprise: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations. . . . Conscious of this command, and its full implications in an increasingly un-Christian world, on Christmas Day many a Western-Christian looked toward India, where, at Madras Christian College, 450 Christian men and women from 65 nations were gathered last week...
...torn China sent 60 delegates to Madras. Far from being dismayed at the physical damage done to mission buildings during the war, Chinese Christians rejoice in the new respect which Chinese soldiers and people have come to feel toward Christian missionaries. A decade ago, missionaries bore the brunt of China's hatred of foreigners, but are now welcomed wherever there are Chinese masses in need...
Democracies. In the Democratic States-France, the Low Countries, England and the U. S.-the churches in 1938 pursued their mission unmolested. In France, there was evidence that the intense anticlericalism of a generation ago had all but disappeared. One sign: the self-dissolution last fortnight of an organization for the defense of priests and laymen in legal difficulties. U. S. Catholicism, regarded by Catholics in Europe as a model or a horrible example (depending upon the point of view) of a militant laity working under the supervision of its priesthood, fought the Church's battle on many fronts...