The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-07

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This is the type of letter that
DR.. Alfred w. Price, rector of St.
Stephens Episcopal church, Phil
adelphia, sends to ''Mr. and Mrs.
Now-and- Then" the occasional at
pendants at church: II wonder if
you realize how much your pres
ence means to us. Some people
feel that church attendance is
chiefly a matter of getting; but
in real sense it is matter OF
giving. You come to church to
give something to the congrega-
tion-your cooperation and fellow.
ship in the adventure of worship
Your presence is moral and
spiritual benefit to those present.
Your absence is distinct loss
No matter how many others are
present, your presence and influ'
ence are sorely needed. Goodness
and devotion are more easily
caught than taught, and caught by
association in groups. Won't you
give this angle of thought your
consideration, and help make ST.
Stephens church of ever increas-
ing usefulness in this commu-
nity?"
1.-The Church and Americas
People" is the theme of a series
of Monday noon radio addresses
given during May and June by
DR.. Mark A. Dawber, secretary
of the Home Missions Council OF
North America. He is on the air
each Monday at II to 1915 p. M,
Eastern War Time, over Station
WIZ and associated stations of the
Blue Network. His talks include
discussions of Indian, Negro, Jew
ish, Japanese American, Alaskan.
Puerto Rican, rural, city and mi
grant peoples and problems under
the American flag.
The Methodist Rural Fellowship
an interstate organization of
Methodist ministers serving rural
charges and interested in promot-
ing the rural church in America,
will hold a mid-western confer
ence on May and 3, in Kansas
City, Mo-, in connection with the
General Conference of the Metho-
dist church. Prof. Ralph William
son, of Cornell University, is pres
ident of the Fellowship. Among
those on the program will be: Rev.
Dutton S. Peterson of Odessa, N.
Y; Rev. Ralph Grieser of Polo.
ILL.,; Prof. Charles M. Mcconnell
of Boston University; the Rev.
Howard c. Benton of Cimarron.
KAN; the Rev. John B. Howes of
Pa; DR.. Ralph Loomi. of
Columbia, Mo-; Dr. J. R. Ormond
of Duke University; DR.. "A. H.
of the Methodist Board
OF Missions; the Rev. Clyde N.
Rogers of Slatersville Springs, N.
Y. The fellowship has $50 men,
bers.
Protestant churches in the
United States raised $1,559, 991,
through twenty-one denominations
in 1913 for their united overseas
relief program among non-mii-
tary war sufferers, reports DR..
Leslie Bates Moss, director of the
Church Committee on Overseas
Relief and Reconstruction (297
Fourth Ave-, New York City,, the
coordinating agency Of these
bodies. These game churches, he
says, have a goal Of $1,870,000 for
1914 to meet increasing needs. In
cluded among the projects for
which these funds are issued are:
assistance to refugees from Axis
countries Nhrough the World Coun-
ell of Churches in GENEVA; print
ing of scriptures; special ministry
to women and children war suf-
ferers, especially in Greece, the
Middle East and Africa; rebuild
ing of some ruined churches: med
icines and grain seeds for Chinese
flood and famine victims; recrea-
tional and educational materials
for prisoners of VIZ; supplies for
cut off from
European sending countries''.
1.-THE next twenty-five years will
be Of extreme importance to world
order from the angle Of racism".
said a conference of Methodist
churchmen meeting recently in
Evanston, ILL.,, to consider world
wide problems of race prejudice
and discrimination. IF there is to
be a Christian solution, rather than
racial war. the Western nations
must act quickly to change their
attitudes Of racial superiority as
expressed through imperialism,
exploitation and discrimination.
Unless they bring out racial
changes In their political and $50