Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great period of Grand Rapids furniture began. The Eastern market was opened to Grand Rapids when a suite (a "suit" not a "sweet," in the furniture business) by Berkey won a gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. After that, through the American Victorian, Eastlake, Mission and the Golden Oak periods, Berkey and Gay and the other firms which grew up around it built up Grand Rapids as a home of honest craftsmanship, if not of inspired design...
...increase in U. S. population, Roger Babson declares that while 12% of the population attended Protestant churches in 1930, the rate was down to 10.8% last year. Dejected by his findings, good Congregationalist Babson concluded through his spokesman-secretary: "If church attendance continues to peter out, our mission societies and all our other church organizations will go overboard. To save the church our laymen must go to church...
Scholar Lamsa, who as an Assyrian belongs to what he calls "the only pure Semitic people in the Christian fold," went to an Anglican mission college in Persia, later to Virginia Theological Seminary. Recent years in the U. S. George Lamsa has devoted to trying to prove that Christ spoke not Hebrew but Aramaic. In that tongue, used today by only a few tribesmen in the Lebanon Mountains, Lamsa believes the Gospels were originally written before they were translated successively into Semitic-sounding Greek and Latin. Two years ago Dr. Lamsa translated the four Gospels into English from early Aramaic...
...Presbyterian Mission hospital at Barrow contains nine beds, accommodates additional patients on the floor. Dr. Greist solved the problem of water supply by connecting a large iron drum to the hospital stove. In the drum is kept a constant supply of melting ice. For help in the hospital Dr. Greist depended on Mrs. Greist and another trained nurse...
Died. Most Rev. James Anthony Walsh, 69, Titular Bishop of Siene, co-founder and Superior General of the Maryknoll Fathers (Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America); of pneumonia: at Maryknoll, Ossining...