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Over the freshly sodded grave of a British pilot who crashed in Denmark, a Danish pastor, whose name did not reach the outer world, placed a stone with this inscription: "Fell in the battle, also for Denmark...
...Pastor R. D. Dodds surveyed his slightly battered, white frame Baptist church, its blown-open door, the broken rainbow-colored windows. Said he, wistfully: "If one-fourth of the people who came to see the hole the bomb made would only attend church...
...Poling, pastor of Philadelphia's Baptist Temple, president of World's Christian Endeavor Union, has been deeply touched by war. His son, Army Chaplain Clark Vandersall Poling, to whose memory the book is dedicated, died last February in the sinking of an army trans port in the North African campaign. He and three other chaplains (a Methodist, a Roman Catholic, a Jew) gave their life belts to soldiers who had none, were last seen kneeling together on a canting deck in their final prayer...
...Immoral and Unchristian." Tall, broad-shouldered Dr. Poling is editor as well as pastor (his Christian Herald, potent Protestant monthly, has a circulation of 250,000). In both capacities he has consistently espoused the down-to-earth view of religion, shown little patience with unpractical applications of faith. He stood out among U.S. Protestant leaders for a steadfast refusal to espouse pacifism after World War I. He still finds pacifism "immoral and unchristian." To those who profess it, believing they thereby follow Jesus' teachings literally, Poling quotes from P. W. Wilson's Newtopia to point out that Jesus...
Last week the Navy gave him a clerical jumping-mate. Assigned to the same training was Chaplain Ralph Everett Tupper, 34-year-old former pastor of South Baptist Church, Worcester, Mass...