The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-03-31
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The Rev. Milo Beran, finding
/ that a number of his people are
kept from regular church services
by work in war industries, is con-
Quoting a service at $50 each Sun
day morning in Mt. Washington
Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati
Ohio. Two young women act as
hostesses and serve coffee and
doughnuts to the worshippers be-
| fore they leave for work.
DR.. and Mrs. Fred Alden, of Par
Her, Calf, are completing the 25th
year of service to Colegio Ward,
Methodist educational institution in
Buenos Aires, Argentina, of which
| DR.. Alden is now director. Follow
ing graduation from the University
OF California, the young couple
went to Argentina and most of
their missionary service has been
at this college Its graduates are
in practically every walk of life in
every province of Argentina, and
in the neighboring nations of Uru-
quay. paraguay, Bolivia. Chile. Pc
III, and some in the United States.
1t has 800 students. Institutions
like Colegio Ward are an honor not
only to Argentina but to all AM
erican Bible Society; $4,000 for
Alves, ambassador from Brazil to
Argentina
The United Lutheran Church,
which in 1942 raised more than
$500, 900 for Lutheran World Ac-
|tion.' under the leadership of Di-
rector DR.. Ralph H. Long, has set
q goal OF one million dollars for
the same causes in 1913. Of this
total, one-half will be for the
church's ministry to men in the
armed services; $270,000 for "or-
phaned missions" in Africa and
Asia; $150,O00 for ministry to i'm
dustrial workers; $4,000 for War
Prisoners Aid; 5000 for the AM
erica nBible Society; $4,000 for
work among refugees; and $4,000
for emergencies.
This is the text of a prayer for
peace, recently read in almost all
Lutheran Pulpits in Norway: 20
God, we pray that thou wilt bring
to halt the shedding of blood so
that a just and lasting peace may
come to the world. Show mercy. to
those who are suffering and dying
on the battlefield and to the home
less and the prosecuted. Remem-
Der thy promise and have, pity on
the unfortunate people of Israel.
We ask thy merciful help for all
those who are prosecuted and are
enduring suffering. We pray thee
to put an end to all hatred between
peoples and races" =,
{ One of the great epics coming
out of China is the fight of Lingnan
University to live and to serve
China. Founded in Canton by
Presbyterian missionaries in 1885,
chartered by the Regents of the
University of the State of New
York eight years later, approved
by the Chinese Ministry of Edu-
cation, and supported by mission
boards and government grants,
Lingnan University carried on
peaceahly with more than 800 stu
dents until the Japanese first raid
ed and then captured Canton. A
month later the University re-
opened in Hongkong, only to have
that city fall into the same hands
in 1871. A few weeks later, Presi-
dent Y. L. Lee and other members
Of the faculty slipped quietly out
of the city and went to Kukone.
wartime capital of Kwantung Pro-
vince. There in mat-sheds the
University reorganized, holding ex-
aminations for new students, and
organizing also a high school and
a theological seminary. With pri-
vate aid and with government aid
temporary structures were built
and there lin exile the institution
carries on today.
Secretary General Georges The
lin, of the Save the Children In
ternational Union, in Geneva, Swift
zerland, calls the attention of
Christian churches to the "Declar-
alton of the Rights of the Child
formulated at Geneva twenty years
ago, because its application is now
more than ever necessary" The
Declaration states that above all
considerations of race, nationality
or creed, THE child must be given
the means requisite for it's normal