The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-12-30
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So great is the need for volun- teers for many services in the hos pitals of Albany, N. Y., that the Albany Federation of Churches has agreed to secure workers who car give from four hours to two days of service per week. Of the first l50 men enrolled, more than halt were priests, rabbis and ministers of several denominations The ser- vices listed include the most menial in the hospitals.
 Because neighbor does not know neighbor in a big city, and famll- ies may be lost" and no church know it tas cannot happen in a small town), the twelve principal Protestant churches in downtown Minneapolis, Minn., have organized ministers and laymen into gen. eral committee to give pastoral ser vice throughout the congested city center. The area is divided into twelve districts, and one church IS responsible for complete house to house visitation and roster of one district. In calling in homes and apartments, the church visitor re- presents all twelve churches and in- vites the person or family called upon to become active in the church of his choice. AS first result of this effort, there has been an in- crease in church membership, and many cases have been found where the comfort and service of the church has been needed and ex- tended
 A token gift of $25,00O has been sent by group of Protestant churches of the United States and Canada to the famine sufferers Of Bengal Province, through the For eign Missions Conference of North America and the National Christ ian Council of India. On receipt of a statement of the need from the Indian Councils secretary, Rajah Manikam, this amount was sent and more is promised while the famine conditions last. This is only a drop in the bucket of the terrible need" says Miss Sue Weddell of the Foreign Missions Conference, but it is gesture of concern and Christian interest in the Indian people. Their living, always meagre, has been cut to the point of starva- ton in many cases by war-imposed limits on transportation facilities and by recent floods. This initial gift will be followed by larger gifts. D
 Chinese Christians of a number of denominations have joined to- gether in the formation of "The United Christian Publishers" ill Chengtu, West China, and proposes the issuance of a number of import ant books, some of them transla- tions into Chinese from English and of an "Omnibook" which will contain timely articles on Christian topics, some original and some translated. Already digest of Willkie's One World" has appeared in the Omnibook. Books that are appearing in Chinese include: Prof. Frank Prices Christianity in the Postwar World" Dr. Y. T. Wu's "The Meaning of Belief in God" Donforth's T Dare You" and Daw- sons life of John Frederick Ober- lin. The Foreign Missions Confer ence of North America halls this new enterprise as one of the most important yet advanced by Chinese Christians and their missionary as- SOciateS.
 Urging American people, and eS- pecially the people of the churches, to understand and do something about the prejudices of American whites against the Negroes, Jews, Japanese, Chinese and others in this country. the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in Am erica says: "As Christians, each of us should enlist in the organized