The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-09
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A Crusade for Christ" in an
hour when never before has theirs
been so much sorrow, desolation
and utter destruction come 10 50
many peoples,' will be waged IN
year among the $4,000 cungre,
cations of the Methodist Church
beginning December l next, under
the auspices of the Council of Bisb.
ops of the denomination. The Crn.
SADIE will have financial obier.
tive of raising SIS, 100000 in that
period for foreign, American. and
educational needs growing out ~
the World War Situation. But n.
scope of the effort will be wide.
than its financial goal, says the
sponsors. 1t will carry forward the
earlier crusade for New Worldp
ORDER part of which was to i'm.
press upon government leaders tho
desires of church people for lust
and lasting peace; plans for re.
construction of mission work de.
molished or damaged by the war,
and efforts to promote evangelism
throughout America, to encourage
c h i S t n stewardship of all
of life,' and to increase Sunday
school attendance which has been
falling off seriously for some
years. Bishop C. Bromley Oman
of New York, is leader of the
Crusade.
In the recent death of the Rev,
Professor Jones Maffitt, the Eng.
disappearing fellowship of Chris.
tan churches has lost one of IFS
greatest scholars and most profit.
ic writer's. While he wrote score
of volumes in the field of Chris.
tan theology and Bible common.
tary, his fame rests principally
upon his translation of the Bible
into modern English the Moffatt
Translation. DR.. Mofiatt was
born in Scotland, son of a lay
Presbyterian leader, and entered
the University of Glasgow at the
age of Is. After some years in
the ministry, during W n ich he
translated the New Testament, ne
became professor of church his
tory in the United Free Church
College in Glasgow. His scholar
ship commended Il m to Union
Theological Seminary, New York
City, and from 1927 until his re.
tirement in 1912 he was one of
the outstanding members of that
faculty. He wrote a volume Of de-
tective stories, helped write Bible
dramatizations, and was an en-
thusastic fisherman and baseball
fan.
The first Chinese to be admitted
to citizenry in the United States,
under the new law permitting such
comforting to Chinese, is Edward
Bing Kan, of Chicago, a deacon
in the Chinese Christian U n on
Church of that city. He has been
in the United States for 81 years,
and for most of that period has
been an interpreter of the U. S.
immigration Service. This church,
affiliated with the Northern Bap-
fist Convention, boasts of having
SIS of its young American men,
bers of Chinese extraction in the
armed services of the United
States
Recent elections of bishops Of
the Methodist Church, held at the
jurisdictional regionaD conference
es in the United States, give the
denomination three new episcopal
leaders for missionary ervice
overseas. DR.. Newell S. Booth, for
IL years missionary in the Bel
gian Congo, becomes the bishop
of the Elizabethville Area, with
Methodist work in the Congo the
Union of South Africa, Southern
Rhodesia, Angola and Macon,
bique under his direction. Presi-
dent Willis J. King, of Atlanta,
Ga, head of Cannon Theological
Seminary. Methodism' school for
training Negro pastors, has been
chosen as bishop of Liberia, Africa
the churchs oldest mission field,
Dean Paul N. CARRIER, dean Of tAe
Divinity School of Duke UniVer-
sity, Durham, N. c.. goes TO Ge-
neva, Switzerland, where he will
administer as bishop all Methodist
mission work in central and south
ern Europe; this includes missions
and conferences in Belgium, Bull
garia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Italy. Jugoslavia, Madeira Islands,
and Switzerland.
About thousand Russian prlS-
oners of war, captured by the Ru'
manian army, are working in the
famous Vulcan mine in Tran5yl'
vania, and are ministered to by
clergymen CT the Eastern Ortho'
dox church, according to the &C.
neva Office of the World Council
These prisoners of war who grew
up in the years of the very bit
ter persecution of religion and the
church in Russia, have begun to
turn to tne faith of their fathers,
and themselves demanded an or
dered church life which would be
source of comfort, inspiration
and spiritual renewal. A tangible
expression of this attitude is an
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