The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-27
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Churches of Christ in America ir
its annual message for Labor Sun
day: 1.-The Christian church, pro
claiming the essential worth of per
sonality, would be remiss in Its
solemn duty did it not reaffirn
again this Labor Day its belief that
a Christian society is under sacred
obligation so to organize itself thai
every one willing and able to work
may be guaranteed some meaning
full occupation. The Christian
church must point out that g
society which can do this under the
pressure OF total war must also de
so under a peacetime economy
Thoughtful Americans are looking
beyond the present crisis and form
ulating plans that will guarantee a
greater security in the postwar
world. Failure OF society SO to or
ganize itself as to achieve such
security would constitute the admis
sion that the ends now being fought
for at such staggering cost in lives
and materials are not worth main.
tanning once the sacrifices have
been made and the victory OF arms
assured"
DR.. William Jay Schieffelin,
president of the American Mission
to Lepers, reports that twenty per.
cent of the medical mission stations
ministering to lepers are in areas
of the world blacked-out by the
war, and that an additional four
percent are on the borderline; but
that reports indicate even here
some anti-leprosy work is going on.
Meanwhile the Mission is planning
to meet coming postwar needs:
Choosing countries, areas and
localities where leprosy work is not
being adequately done and taking
the initiative there in opening new
stations and enlarging old ones. "
The objective of tae Mission is rid
ding the world of all leprosy-a goal
scientifically possible
The College of Medicine and Den
tistry of West China Union Univer.
sity (Protestant) recently sent a
medical and health unit Of twenty
six doctors, dentists and nurses to
famine-stricken Honan Province,
China. They made the trip north in
charcoal-burning ambulances pro-
vided by the Friends Service Com
mittee (Quakers). At Loyang they
established two medical centers un-
der the direction of 81 h o p
Thomas M. Megan Of the Catholic
Mission, and third center at Chen.
chow. Here they met and treated
starvation with its attendant
diseases, the acute fevers, malaria,
malnutritional diseases, trachoma
and parasitical diseases.
$50 long as we have war in the
world, some race will be haunted
with the fear of discrimination "
says DR.. Mark A. Dawber. secre.
tary of the Home Missions Council
OF North America. THAT is whv
we must get rid of war. But let
us not think that we can bomb orr
way to brotherhood. Peace is final
ly matter of the heart and not of
the fist. Peace is a matter Of hu-
man relations; it is a question of
Christian fellowship. Ali our politi
cal strategy, our trade agreements
our national alliances are but =
shallow deception and will lead to
another and more desperate PLIGHT
than the present one, unless thera
is above and underneath them all =
deep-seated desire to achieve this
Christian fellowship. All our politi.
people"
The pastor of the Reformed
Church of LIE Havre, France fro1o
which, according to the Wor1d
Council of Churches, more than
thousand communicate families
have been evacuated to OF he =
areas, sent this message recently
to his scattered flock: "After vo,r
departures in the course of evacna
tlon:' our church first found i+ss1f
weaker, but then took heart and
mas become stronger. Never has it
naa liner inner life. If YOU We're