Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from North Leftist Spain was the Socialist who built its People's Army, famed Indalecio Prieto. Traveling by car with two women of his family and a secretary, Socialist Prieto said shortly to correspondents at the frontier: "Yes, we are driving up to Paris, but I have no mission...
...defeat a project dear to Bishop Ainsworth's heart-reunion of 8,000,000 U. S. Methodists into one great church. In less than three years, Northern Methodists, Methodist Protestants and six out of seven Southern Methodist conferences had approved a plan of union drawn by a commission mission of which Bishop Ainsworth was a member (TIME, Aug. 25, 1935). Ailing at 66, contemplating retirement. Bishop Ainsworth urged Southern laymen to give their final, necessary approval to the merger. He also issued a sharp statement...
With every Protestant mission station in north and central China now an emergency relief centre, U. S. mission boards through their Committee on Relief in China last week began a drive for $5,000,000 for the next year's work.* From China the committee received proof that missionary labors tire now not unappreciated in high places. In a speech to missionaries in Hankow, Mme Chiang Kai-shek revealed that her husband, as a gesture of gratitude, had lifted an eleven-year ban upon compulsory religious courses in Chinese mission schools. Said she: "I am very glad to tell...
...Presbyterian mission boards, North and South, spend more than $300,000 a year to support a Korean Presbyterian Church with 100,000 members. The Japanese Government feels less sure of Koreans than it does of Japanese, worries more about their exposure to Occidental influences. Increasingly in the past five years, beginning when Shinto services were held for soldiers dead in China and Manchukuo, the Government has put pressure upon Korean Christians to join in what it calls "patriotic" ceremonies at Shinto shrines. Christian teachers have been ordered to take their Christian classes to the shrines, join in observances which involve...
...slight inclination of the head and body" when a command is given which means: "Respectful Salute!" Wrote he: "No genuflection or prostration is required." Furthermore, the Government permits Christians to declare publicly that they attach no religious importance to the ceremonies. Finally. Missionary Underwood pointed out that closing mission schools would throw the children into non-Christian schools, would prejudice the Government against all the activities of Christian churches, and would do nothing to stop the salutes at Shinto shrines...