The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-21
Nv w. w. REID

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an church has established its
first "air parish" in western
United States with the recent
installation of the Rev. Norval
G. Highland, an ordained and
seminary : trained minister and
a licensed pilot, as pastor with
HEADQUARTERS at Lennon, South
Dakota. A former professor at
Concordia college, Moorhead,
Mimi, and pastor in Montana
and South Dakota, Pastor Heg-
land will fly by plane among
five established congregations
and numerous preaching cen
tiers in a $500 square mile area
the west river. country OF
South Dakota, with Timber
Lake on the east, the Montana
border on the west, the North
Dakota border on the north, and
the township of Zeona on the
south. He will cover this terri
tory in a Piper Super-Cruiser,
the gift of the Young Peoples
Luther League of South Dakota.
Half of the Island of Oki-
nawa's $50, 900 population is
seriously considering" turning
to the Christian faith, accord
ing to the Rev. Garland E. Hop
kins, associate secretary of the
Board of Missions of the Metho-
dist church, who recently re-
turned from a visit there. He
had been a chaplain on Oki-
nawa during part of the war.
DR.. Hopkins says that before
the war there were only ten
scattered Protestant congre-
cations, totally a few hundred
people, before the war on Oki-
nawa; and that today there are
thirty organized churches in the
Okinawa Christian association,
led largely by laymen, and that
more are in the process of
form alton.
The Protestant Episcopal Do
cese of New York has long been
a great city diocese, centering
about the multi-millon dollar
Cathedral of St. John the D.
vine, monument to Bishop Will
liam T. Manning, now retired.
But on the outskirts of the city
and cup the Hudson Valley
there are scores of so-called
forgotten parishes" of the Do
cese - lowered over by the
spires of the Cathedral and met
ropolitan churches. Now Bishop
Charles K. Gilbert, New York's
new Episcopal head, has asked
his suffragan, Bishop Horace W.
B. Donegan to devote much of
his time and energy to those
hitherto neglected parishes.
Bishop Donegan is especially
noted as a teacher of youth.
Three of the oldest and best
known of China's Christian edu-
cational institutions of higher
learning, all located in the City
of Shanghai, are now merging
into the new east China Union
University" with each of the
three merging bodies reorganiz-
ing for specialized studies, and
with a total freshman class
limited to 800 students. Hang
chow University, the oldest of
the merging schools, was found
ed by the Presbyterians in 1845;
it will have schools of engineer
ing and commerce in the fu-
ture. St. Johns University,
founded by the Episcopalians in
1865, will receive only students
in arts and medicine; Soochow
University, under the auspices
of the Methodist church GU. S.
Az and founded in 1871, will
specialize in law and in science.
The new university will con-
tinue to receive funds from all
three American churches.
Informing Star vi" is now
somewhere on the high seas
sailing from Boston, Mass, via
the Panama Canal, to the Caro-
line and Marshall Islands. The
little two = masted schooner,
boasting Of a diesel engine, is
"a missionary from Boston" to
the South Sea islanders in the
tradition Of nine decades of
Christian service. informing
Star VI" goes as a missionary
from the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions (Congregational), the mis-
sion group that sent the first
Christian missionaries to those
islands, and that sent five earli-
er vessels there. It signifies the
reopening of mission work in
the Islands after the war. It is
needed for the transportation of
workers and supplies for island
to island visitation, and is the
only type Of vessel that can be
used where fuel is well-nigh i'm
possible to obtain. informing
Star vi" was sent to the South
Seas in 1856 with some of the
first Congregational mission
aries; one was Hiram Bingham,
an ancestor of ex-senator
Hiram Bingham of Connecticut.