The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
News Of The
!. World In
Religion


AS a means not only of render
ing needed relief, but also of ex-
pressing friendship of Americans
for the SOVIET Union, interde-
nominational and Protestant
Church World Service" an
nounces through its director, DR..
Leslie H. Moss, that it has under
taken to provide warm clothing
for 100, 900 war-orphaned Russian
children. This is the first relief
that CWS has sent to Russia, al
though a related ~inter-faith (now
dissolved) did the same thing last
year. A complete outfit for a boy
or girl-an outfit such as CWS is
sending from moneys received
from Protestant churches and
people-costs $21.50.
The Presbyterian Church in the
lU.S.A. is raising a restoration
fund" for relief and rehabilita-
ton in Europe, Asia, and the war
damaged islands of the Pacific, in
the sun of $27, 600, 900. The cam
paign was launched in May 1945,
and to. date $21, 108,O 600 has been
pledged, according to director DR..
Harold A. Dalzell.
Among shipments sent overseas
recently by the Methodist Com
mittee for Overseas Relief-using
funds contributed by Methodist
churches, largely through COM
munion offerings - were fifty
cases of shoe repair kits. These
were shipped to Bremen, Ger
many, where they will be distri-
buted by Bishop J. W. E. Sommer
and the Methodist Relief Commit
tee he heads. These kits, contain
ing tools, leather, nails, etc., will
help meet one of the greatest
needs of the German people; for
years no new shoes have been
available there, and many thous-
ands of people are reported going
barefooted Or nearly barefooted,
even in winter weather.
Fashionable Christ Church, New
York City, of which DR.. Ralph w.
Sockman is minister, has provid-
ed a day nursery and its equip
ment for the Jefferson Park Itali-
an Methodist Church which serves
one of the most densely populated
areas of East Harlem, New York.
All organizations of Christ Church
worked on the project-men paint
ing and sanding the floor, women
sewing, furnishing linens and as
sisting in the are of the children.
Following conferences in Japan
with national Christian leaders,
with General Macarthur, and
with Japanese educational author
tiles, the Rev. Thoburn T. Brum-
baugh. DID,, has returned to the
United States with general sup
port of the idea of establishing in
some japanese city a Christian
university, provided by Christian
people of America as partial
"atonement'' for the atom bomb
destruction of two cities. DR..
Brumbaugh is executive secretary
of the proposed international
Christian university of Japan"
for which the Federal Council of
the Churches of Christ and the
Foreign Missions Conference of
North America will ask American
churchmen to contribute from
five to fifteen millions of dollars"
Though General Macarthur urg-
es that the sum be fifty millions.
First unit to be established. says
DR.. Brumbaugh, a former mis-
sionary to Japan, would be a
school of education which would
be IAN agency for the moral and
intellectual advance of the entire
population
The place Of the Sunday school
in the teaching of religion in
America will be considered for
four days. July % to q, by some
10, 900 volunteer church teachers
and officers at the twenty = first
~quadrennial International Sunday
School Convention at Des Moines,
Iowa, under the auspices of the
International Council of Religious
Education. The Coliseum and the
Drake Stadium will house the
Convention. Presiding will be for
mer Gov. Harold E. Stassen, head
of the Council and j. l.. Kraft,
Chicago industrialist, who chairs
the convention committee. Speak
ers and leaders will include DR..
Roy L. Smith of Chicago, Mrs.
Grace Sloan Overton of Adams,
N. Y, DR.. Roy G. Ross of Chica-
go, General Omar N. Bradley,
President Paul Hob of Mount
Airy, Pa, Mrs. Harper Sibley of
Rochester, N. Y, DR.. Mordecai
Johnson of Washington, D. c. At
torney General Tom Clark, DIR.
Ernest T. Thompson of Richmond,
Va.
Said Secretary of War Patter-
son recently: 'The canteens are
closed. The recreation centers arc
dark. The civic groups d
churches turn to other activities.
The flow of letters overseas dWin-
dies. The American people are
not callous or Indifferent. I am
certain that if the proper impetus
is applied there will be a reaWak-