Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credit was a "regrettable act," and, if a political gesture against Japan, "most dangerous." Summoned to meet at Peking last week were the heads of the puppet Governments of Peking and Nanking and the "provisional" Governments of Hankow and Canton. One of the purposes of the meeting was to teach the puppets a politico-economic trick that has already been successfully employed by Japan in Manchukuo. Japan would formulate, the puppets promulgate, trade rules discriminating against other nations. Thus Japan will be able to pretend that she has not slammed the open door in China...
...fond of saying: "He was born in a hurry and has been in a hurry ever since." Tall, lean and bounding with energy, Norman Nash was graduated from Harvard and Episcopal Theological School, studied at Cambridge in England, was a chaplain in the War and went back to teach at Episcopal for 19 years. Meanwhile he raised two daughters and a son, three nieces...
...nominally Christianized western world, Christianity might sometimes seem an old, unhappy, far-off thing; but in the East, the bright star still went before, was still followed by eager seekers asking "Where is He?" Christ's mission on earth was a missionary enterprise: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations. . . . Conscious of this command, and its full implications in an increasingly un-Christian world, on Christmas Day many a Western-Christian looked toward India, where, at Madras Christian College, 450 Christian men and women from 65 nations were gathered last week...
...heart, understood the Christmas message which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife sent their Christian friends in the U. S. Wrote these pre-eminent products of Christian missions: "There lies upon us and, we presume, upon you also, a great weight of care which religion alone can teach us to bear worthily. . . . Our religion teaches us that sin is immeasurably a greater evil than suffering. . . . Our people ... are being purified and uplifted by their present trials. . . . War is brutal, but it will ever be powerless to rob any of us of the transcendent peace...
...just as effective as that of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the British Committee for the Care of Children from Germany last week continued its effort to get 75,000 Jewish children under 17 out of Nazi clutches. The committee found temporary shelter for 500 waifs in a holiday camp, will teach them English and try to find them (and others yet to come) permanent homes...