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...worker. As such she was wooed by her impetuous, ambitious husband, who was then and for years afterward a passionate Christian, in the Old Testament, Cromwellian fighting sense. Today the Marshal's state of grace is a trifle uncertain. He has cast in his lot with the studiously non-Christian Chinese Nationalist Party...
...most important concerted action which the Council accomplished was the report which it accepted in a unanimous rising vote of findings on the Christian message in relation to non-Christian systems. This report, which had been awaited with some anxiety before the conference opened, in part reiterates the findings of the Lausanne Conference on Faith and Order, held last summer. It declares that the messages of Christianity should be proclaimed against the background of a world-situation which includes...
First, the Council will attempt to discover and to state the spiritual values of non-Christian systems of religion; it will review Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islamism from a sympathetic point of view. Then it will try to reach a more profound understanding of interdependence between the younger Churches, especially in Asia, and the older Churches. Another topic to be considered is the impact of industrialism upon Asia and Africa. These are questions which have often been discussed before, though perhaps never by a group so well equipped to arrive at satisfactory answers. This is a council of commanders...
Said Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church, suggesting to the 3,000 students that non-Christian lands had need of 100,000 physicians to deal with 1,000,000 lepers and hundreds of thousands of blind throughout the non-Christian world: "Outside of four or five cities, you cannot find 10 qualified physicians for the 10 million people in Persia...
Since all Christian bodies from Roman Catholic to Holy Rollers (except the small Unitarian sect) hold that Jesus was divine, it appears that only about 30% of Dartmouth is Christian. Something over 40% are non-Christian theists, and the balance are either agnostics or atheists. All this, of course, on the assumption that Dartmouth students are keen enough to know what they are. The fact that 455 said they are active church members while only 330 subscribe to the distinguishing tenet of Christianity indicates that the boys are not sure what they...