The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-09-25

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Village characters are portrayed by
Reginald Owen, Henry Travers and
Christopher Severn, and Dame May
Witty is a dominant figure as the
loblewoman who sees the power OF
democracy through the struggle
henry Wilcoxon plays the vicar.
ain an unbroken and an unbreak-
,ble fellowship. The observance OF
worldwide Communion Sunday has
Helped and will continue to help
increase the sense of oneness that
Christian believers have in Christ
Jesus our Lord"
When Sir Isaac Newton an
bounced the law of gravitation, men
salked about him just as men still
salk about Jesus" says DR.. Harry
Emerson Fosdick, speaking to a
group of young ministers. "Said
JIG lNCWOOll lido OCl dIikCN
poetical fancy Said another critic,
This crazy mathematician will not
have twenty followers in his life
time Well, that was true. New
ton lived forty years after the pub
LEGATION of his book, and his converts
numbered less than a dozen. But
at last, one by one, and then in
masses. men faced an astonishing
experience, as it dawned on them
that Newton's revelation was not
deranged poetcal fancy but fact
astounding fact and universal law
So may God help you to present
Christ
Reports reaching America from
the Geneva (SwitZerland) office OF
the Central Bureau for Interchurch
Aid indicate that some fifty French
Protestant students for the minis
try, and number of refugee French
faculty members who are preparing
these young men for postwar SER
vice are now in Switzerland and
practically dependent upon relief
funds raised in America and in the
still free countries of Europe. The
same source indicates that the
theological seminary in Warsaw for
the training of Protestant Poles for
the ministry has been closed since
German occupation of the country,
and that the teachers are being
kept alive largely through food
packages reaching them via Red
Cross facilities.
British and American Methodism
which are serving in adjoining ter
ritory in Southern Rhodesia, Africa,
are moving toward closer coopera-
ton and fellowship if not into &C
tual union, through the formation
of the Methodist Council of South
ern Rhodesia' recently in the city
OF Salisbury. The Synod of the
British church and the Conference
OF the American church are both
represented. The Rev. Herbert Car
ter, British superintendent, was
elected chairman; and the Rev. E..
L. Sells, American missionary sec
rotary. The two churches are CO.
operating in making uniformity in
rules for membership, in training
African eyangelists, in work among
Indians in the Colony, in religious
publications, and in ministering to
European young people.
The Wartime Service Committee
of the National Christian Council
of China is busy coordinating many
forms of national service that the
churches are rendering China to-
day. A movement for the making
of slippers for wounded Chinese SOL
diers was begun in the Methodist
Church of Chungking; now, through
the Committee, it has spread to
hundreds of other churches. The
Committee also is promoting efforts
to put crippled soldiers on a self
supporting basis. largely by teach
ing them trades; in establishing
water system for the soldiers hos
pital near Chungking; providing an
eye clinic and health service for
conscripts in Neikiang; and CO.
operating with other agencies in a
children's home for the famine area
of Honan Province.
Bishop Francis j. Mcconnell of
the Methodist Church, New York,
said recently: TT is said that Alb
raham Lincoln, after hearing lee
ture on Immortality which declared
that some races are too inferior to
be given chance at immortality,
shook his head and said, Tt must
be all or none : So indeed it
must be in mems thoughts of one
another. Taking Jesus as the SUI
preme revelation of the moral pur-
poses of the divine, we are con-
WINGED that His teaching of divine
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