Word: presbyterianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most missionaries, "Smilin' Sam" Higginbottom went to India to save souls for Christianity. When he saw the terrible poverty, he decided that souls could not be saved while the body was starving. Finally the Presbyterian (U.S.A.) mission board heard his persistent plea, brought him back to study agriculture...
...Higginbottom's missionary labors have been recognized. Princeton invented the degree of Doctor of Philanthropy for him; the British Government decorated him four times; the Presbyterian Church made him its moderator in 1939. Last week he planned to write an agricultural textbook for Indians and to become an American citizen. Said he: "I've just never had five years [necessary to become a citizen] I could spare...
Before the Japs came, life at the American Presbyterian Mission in Shanghai was tolerably peaceful. From across the fence drifted a medley of sounds: the shrill screams of a little Chinese girl whose feet were being bound for the first time; the cries in the Roman Catholic insane asylum ; the chatter of Seventh-Day Baptists; the heavy snores of the local opium addict...
...high shrieks as the cook (who suffered from "an unfortunate hereditary malady") chased his sister around the Women's Bible School with a knife. "Being a good law-abiding Christian," said the cook, "certainly does break down a man's patience in the end." But the Presbyterian Espeys remained patient to the end. To son-&-heir John J. Espey, these scenes of Shanghai childhood seemed nothing out-of-the-way - until his parents brought him home to the U.S. in 1930 (he now teaches English at Los Angeles Occidental College). Minor Heresies is a gay and graceful account...
...five-clawed dragon." Twenty American gunboats lay on the Whangpoo, simply waiting for him to whistle them up to shell his enemies to bits. He was familiar with the tomb of General Grant, and hailed from Pittsburgh - a spot that in piety ranked second only to 156 Fifth Avenue (Presbyterian Headquarters...