Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mountains of Kentucky, where life is lived much as it was in the 18th Century, Religion and its handyman Charity were pioneers. In small Beverly, Ivy, a few years ago, there was an Evangelical Station, one doctor, one nurse. In Hyden (population 320) there was a Presbyterian Mission, one doctor making occasional rounds. For the most part the district got its medical care from harridan midwives and "salve doctors" who peddled strange "yarb" concoctions...
...Brooklyn, Mr. & Mrs. John T. Mulholland tuned in their radio on a rescue mission hour. Into the room came the words, "I will now introduce 'Spider' Tillman and he will tell you of his experience in this world of sin." While Frederick ("Spider") Tillman told how Christianity had redeemed him from a life of sin, Mrs. Mulholland went white & whiter, John Mulholland went red & redder. Spider Tillman was the first husband whom Mrs. Mulholland had claimed to be dead. John Mulholland called on him at the rescue mission, then sued for annulment of his own marriage...
...until last week no U. S. Protestant denomination had given full, official approval to Re-Thinking Missions, the report made public last month by the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry (TIME, Nov. 28). Of the seven denominations whose laymen were concerned in the Inquiry, only three mission boards-Methodist, Baptist. Congregational - have guardedly agreed to cooperate...
...missionaries to Soviet Russia have been so rash in speaking out. But much Protestant mission work does quietly go on, the Baptists being especially quiet, especially successful...
...need for an American historian who understands the spirit of the country is defined by Bernard Fay in the current Scribners. He points out that "America. . .prey to a tremendous upheaval and laboring under the shock of events which make inoperative an exact sense of her mission and her national aims, needs a first rate instruction in history at once." Other countries have various forces which contribute to national unity, such as the language in France and the traditions of literature and art in Germany; but America lacks these. History has taken that position in this country, according to Professor...