The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-10-29

CEIdSv lS SdNtQ III hiiiOitSo "AN church must take hand. Ii it does, it will have to know perhaps not less about God. but certainly more about men" pr Wahlberg S ministry is in Denver's most con gested and poverty stricken district where 4o,0O0 persons live within a few blocks.
 Two years supply of paper for the printing of the Bible ill High Malay in Javanese and in Toba Batak = three of the most widely used native languages of the Netherlands Indies
 --has been shipped to the Far East by the American Bible Society. This is an American gift to the Netherlands Bible Society which has been unable otherwise to secure paper for this purpose. The Amer ican body will also care for the printing Of the Bibles, a service formerly carried on by similar so- cieties in Holland and Great Brit ain. Practically every Christian de- nomination in the United States has contributed to the emergency fund from which the Society provides this new field of service.
 The Thailand tSiam) Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the U s. A. has carried on more normally than other missions of the denom- ination in the Far East, despite the var tensions there, reports the Beard of Foreign Missions of that Church. The Board has given the missionaries permission to evacuate children and mothers, but to date the workers have not felt it necess- ary to leave. There are fifty mis- slonaries and thirteen children of the Presbyterian Church now in Thailand.
 pr. w. Wilson Cash, general sec- retary of the Church Missionary Society, London England, believes that the present war period is the forerunner of a new era in the development of the Chris ia n church throughout the world. He points out that the Napoleonic wars were followed by period of mis- slonary expansion; after the Cri- mean War there was a great ex- pansion in Christian work among the Moslems of the Near East: that in 1900, while the Boer War was on, his own Society sent out 100 new missionaries and other agencies iIad many missionary recruits; and that the period of 1918 to 194I was marked by financial stringency on enc hand and the growth of the Christian community throughout the world on the other hand. Mil lions more are working in the Christian cause today than even a century ago." he says
 Failure to live the religion we profess is the cause of the incred- ible situation of the world today the cause that has sent the whole world into tailspin,p according to Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, of the Roman Catholic archdiocese. New York City. In a recent ad- dress he said We have allusions to religion in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitu- tion. It is not enough to have writ ten and spoken words about religion. Religion must be lived By our example, by our works, we must re- kindle righteousness, so that God will bring mankind out of the tail- spin"
 In 1919, member of the staff of Severance Union Medical College. in Seoul, Korea, sent one and one quarter ounces of Korean lespedeza -used there for pasturage-to the U. s. Department of Agriculture. That seed was carefully planted and matured, and today its descend ants are used widely by American f armers. The Bureau of Plant In- oustry in Washington estimates that the plant is worth $8O,00O,0 ,000 to farmers throughout the United States.