Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human race. How my heart tingles with joy that we have such a message for such a time as this." Missionary Jones then left India, bound for the U. S. where, for two months during the autumn, he toured the country as chief speaker in a University Christian Mission of the Federal Council of Churches...
...Christian Mission, most vigorous evangelistic onslaught on college youth in a generation, brought Dr. Jones and his dynamic, intensely personal message to a dozen State universities. Last week, looking weary from his labors, he sailed for Europe. Thence he will make a four-day airplane dash to Madras, where this month meets an international missionary conference of high import...
...University Mission, staffed by speakers who are all able if not all of Dr. Jones's high calibre, continues through the winter at 15 more colleges. Altogether, the Mission's sponsors hope to reach 130,000 students. Results to date, while they have not included a general increase in churchgoing in the colleges, have borne out what the missioners felt at the beginning of their tour-that "American students are in a mood of vague wistfulness and are open to a vital presentation of the Christian message...
Hardly one fox terrier owner in ten knows that the historic mission of his dog is to chase foxes down their holes, kill them and bring out the bodies. Nowadays not one fox terrier in a hundred does his traditional job. Reason: most dogs live in the city, have neither the time, training nor inclination for hunting. Because they consider that the dog has been deprived of his natural occupation, anti-city dog leaguers regularly raise a cry of cruelty. But in a new book on bringing up dogs,* Dr. James R. Kinney, chief veterinarian of Manhattan's famed...
Michael is so inspired that he decides to write a drama based on the life of Christ, commenting matter-of-factly, "Every man of substance somewhere or other or sometime or other in his life has to fulfill a mission." But because Herta is too intellectual, and "woman's task is to be beautiful and to bring children into the world," they separate. Michael writes his play, is rebuffed by Munich intellectuals, becomes a miner in the Ruhr. Then the book really gets creepy. A mysterious Russian, Iwan, appears, tempts Michael, is defeated ("I am stronger than...