Word: pastors
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Calvinist divine, a predikant (i.e., pastor) of the Dutch Reformed Church, he has a contagious sense of mission, derived somewhat illogically from Calvin's doctrine of predestination. As Malan sees it, God made unalterable 1) the "superiority" of His chosen race, the Boers; 2) the "inferiority" of all other races...
...Seven." In 1933, a depression-struck world went off the gold standard. Gold-producing South Africa went broke, and so did thousands of Boer farmers. Pastor Malan promptly accused the government of "selling the Boer people to Hoggenheimer."* With seven supporters, Malan formed a "Purified Nationalist Party." "Hitler started with seven," he observed approvingly...
Regional Public Service: WSB & WSB-TV, for "promoting the best interests of Atlanta, Ga. and the Southeast" in WSB's The Pastor's Study and WSB-TV's Our World Today...
...Village Level. Besides giving foreigners something to think about, Pastor Robinson brought home some words for his countrymen. He warned U.S. Christians that the "younger churches" of Asia are growing up and want to be run still more by their own leaders. "It is time to drop the word 'missionary,' which becomes increasingly offensive." More generally, he feels, Americans, Christian or otherwise, have not got their message across to Asia: "Many of us have not yet learned the elementary psychology of color...
...convince them of American aims and sincerity, says Robinson, is by talking to them as he did. "We must get down to the village level . . . This is where Communists always concentrate. We've got to outmatch the Communists where it counts-with the people." At the moment, Pastor Robinson believes the very best unofficial ambassadors the U.S. can send are qualified Negroes: "Such people would be the best answer to Communist propaganda, because white people in Asia are apologists at best about race problems...