Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little group of Baptist laymen who met with John D. Rockefeller Jr. in Manhattan one night in January 1930. They knew that in Christ's command. "Go ye therefore and teach all nations," lay the largest task of Christianity. Good businessmen, they and Mr. Rockefeller knew that gifts to missions had now fallen off alarmingly. People no longer thought missionizing the best way, as they thought it 30 years ago, to spend their charity-money. Most people did not know or care much about conditions in foreign mission fields. Mr. Rockefeller had called his Baptist friends together to hear...
Last week the complete report was made public, in a volume called Re-Thinking Missions,* November choice of the Religious Book Club. Excerpts published in the Press had already caused mutterings. But Re-Thinking Missions proved to be well-knit, sincere, lucid, the work of 15 able men and women whose diversities of creeds and interests seemed to preclude collective bias. Thoughtful Protestants had withheld comment until the appearance of the complete report. They now agreed?whether or not they agreed with all the Commission's opinions ?that it was a major milestone in the development of church doctrine...
...mission in some form is a matter not of choice but of obligation. . . . But the essential rightness of the mission idea will not save actual missions from decline or extinction unless in spirit and deed they worthily present that idea...
...foreign mission schools and colleges the Appraisal Commission recommends a change which has not even been made in many a U. S. institution: that "the religious life of the school should be a privilege offered, not a duty required...
...There is one sport that fulfills all these conditions, an ancient sport beloved of men from time immemorial-horse racing. ... In all sacred and profane literature the horse has been the intimate friend of man, and it has been his mission to take upon his broad shoulders the load that had become too heavy for his master. ... In the first place, it is a better money-maker than a football show. Secondly, it is the sort of event on which the old grads and the undergrads can bet in more ways than they can even in football. In the third...