The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-30
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The Farmers Federation OF
North Carolina is among the recent
endorsers of the Lords Acre
Plan which is growing in popular
ity in many parts of the country.
Through it members of rural
churches provide piece of land,
or certain products of their farms,
diaries, poultry yard, ranch, etc.
the proceeds of which are given to
the church for its support. The use
of this plan, according to the Fed
GRAFTON, will stimulate in the
members of the church and church
school deeper spiritual interest,
and a deepened sense of RESPONSE
bility to work comparatively for a
Christian world
To minister to the spiritual needs
Of the $4,000 workers in the New
England Shipbuilding Corporation,
Portland, Maine, the Protestant
Episcopal Church has set aside the
Rev. C. Melbourne Jones as an
industrial chaplain, and the Ro-
man Catholic Church has assigned
the Rev. D. F. Dryer, S. j., to
conduct Catholic services. This re-
ligious ministry has been under
taken at the joint request of labor
and management at the shipyards.
The Rev. Albert E. Couch, of the
Connecticut Council of Churches,
reports that there are two hundred
federal housing projects now in
operation in the State, and he has
begun a program of relating these
new settlements to the more per-
manent church life of nearby COM
munities. Ten such projects are in
Greater Bridgeport and house some
20, 1000 people. The Council has de-
veloped a Larger Parish Plan for
Greater Bridgeport" and six de-
nominations have accepted respon-
sibility for religious work in these
housing projects, especially in re-
ligious education for the children.
There are now ten trained workers
ministering to these people. A
somewhat similar work is now be-
ing organized in projects near New
Britain. The people are not attend
ing the established churches in any
appreciate numbers, says Mr..
Couch, showing distances from
churches, long hours of work. IT.
regular hours, and Sunday shifts
as the causes. He adds: Three to
five years out of touch with the
church may be considered tempo
rary' but it may have a perman-
ent effect, especially upon the chill
dren."
The Rev. Earle H. Ballou, for
twenty-eight years a missionary of
the Congregational Church in China
and former secretary of the Ma
tional Christian Council of China,
has been elected executive secre-
tary of the Associated Boards for
Christian Colleges in China. This
body, with headquarters in New
York, is the American governing
and administrative agency for
IS colleges and universities con-
Quoted in China by Protestant mis-
sion boards of the United States
and Canada. Mr.. Ballou is a grad
uate of Yale and of Hartford Theo-
logical Seminary.
1t would appear that there is a
lot of work for dentists in China
if one multiplies 100000, 900 by 80.
But there are only two schools of
university grade in all China that
train dentists. One is the American
mission controlled West China
Union University, the other the Ma
tional Central University, formerly
IN Marking and now in West China
10 enlarge the services of Went
emma Union University in this field.
the China Medical Board and the
National Health Administration
have contributed 500, 900 GU. S. cur
rency) for new building and equip
ment.
We believe that evil forces ap-
parently so irresistible are doomed
Just because they are arrayed
God and his eternal pur-
pose, says report of the Foreign
Missions Conference of North
america, prepared by committee