Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...healthy Christians who own pig savings banks and to 3,000,000 leprous individuals scattered throughout the world, the annual meeting of the American Mission to Lepers last week in the cozy Church House of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church was a momentous occurrence. At that meeting Dr. Victor George Heiser, Far East director of the Rockefeller Foundation and president of the International Leprosy Association, dramatically announced that leprosy is apparently being cured. In the process the lepers are dyed blue by injection into their veins of a dye called trypan-blue...
...alone but with the aid of the New York clergy. According to plans a theatre would be hired and a professional cast assembled. Tickets would be sold mostly by the churches, which would get 35% of the gross. The Greater New York Federation of Churches and the Brooklyn Church & Mission Federation would take 15%, the rest going for cost of production...
...friend of none and the suspect of all. It is of small moment which game the Secretary has been playing; all the talent is against him, and will be against him through the battle, and he cannot explain himself to the public without losing the prospect of his mission. Perhaps the easy success to which any anti-Hoover candidate would have come seduced the great Secretary into dreams of electoral mastery; but the rough and tumble of a New York campaign should leave him content with new stamp issues and public speaking safely cloistered from the razor minds which discomfort...
...These three small Baltic powers constitute one U. S. diplomatic mission, with headquarters at Riga
...centred, her cult flourished, first under official control, later (since 1908) as an independent Shinto sect. There are now 60,000-odd preachers, 10,000-odd churches including 30 in North America (half of them in California). Tenrikyo is active in proselytizing, maintaining schools, a publishing house, a mission department and an orphanage. It was partly mission work that brought Tenrikyo's young Patriarch to the U.S., to observe U.S. ways at home just as the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry observed them in the East. With five young secretaries, pudgy, bespectacled Shozen Nakayama visited some...