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Nome, Alaska, Friday, September 10, 1948
BERLIN IS BIG HOTSPOT
(New World News Service)
Berlin is the hotspot of the “cold war.” World Com
munism is driving for a showdown, and the democracies
have dug in their heels. Additional U. S. bombers and
fighter planes have been flown to the scene. Britain has
temporarily suspended her demobilization program in
anticipation of increased crisis.
Yet the basic issue is not military but moral. Soviet
Russia’s strategy is based on a materialistic ideology.
Will America base her policy on the answering ideol
ogy? So far General Clay has stood for his convictions.
But without ideologically trained occupation personnel
behind him, he stands alone.
The decisive factor will be the people themselves. If
they find the inner will to rebuild, the tide may yet be
turned in time.
Everything s got to change, is a phrase on the lips
of every German today. It is the name of the first ideo
logical primer for inspired democracy in Germany.
Written by 150 German leaders at the M.R.A. World
Assembly in Caux, Switzerland, 1,000,000 copies have
already gone throughout all four zones. The booklet
ends “Everything can change” and what’s more, shows
how.
The test is will this new ideology grip the minds and
hearts of former Nazi youth? Literally millions of them
wander aimlessly, stealing what they can, running black
markets. They are “easy meat” for the Communist
cause.
Peter Petersen was one of them. At 16 he went to a
special SS school, and then joined Hitler’s personal
army. After the armistice he was put in jail because he
said Nazism would take over Germany again in a hun
dred years. That at M.R.A.’s Assembly in Caux he made
a complete about-face. He wrote in a letter about his re
cent adventures: “In a time when everybody is always
hungry, you can do more through giving away your
bread than through a long speech. It is our job to show
all people that God lives, and that He has a plan which
can be fulfilled if we obey. I know we shall win the bat
tle although the materialistic front in Germany seems
almost to be undefeatable.”
This summer, 400 German leaders are going to Caux
Assembly for training. As five Minister-Presidents of
Germany said in a joint message, “The ideology of Mor
al Re-Armament is an indispensable foundation for the
reconstruction and peace of Europe and the world.”
Maybe this is the answer to Germany the statesmen
are seeking—an ideology that is out-matching, out
marching, and out-moding Communism.
VOICE OF CHRISTIANITY
(The Denver Post)
Any international meeting, whether of labor leaders,
educators, athletes or scientists, is important to all the
people of the world because the real hope for lasting
peace lies in the field of better understanding among the
like-minded individuals of different races and nation
alities.
Recently in Amsterdam, the first world assembly of
the World Council of Churches opened with the repre
sentatives of 148 Protestant and Orthodox denomina
tions and creeds in attendance from forty countries.
Churches not represented, except in some cases by
“observers,” include the Roman Catholic, the Russian
Orthodox, the Christian Science, the Mormon, the Uni
tarian and scores of lesser groups.
All churches which “accept Our Lord Jesus Christ as
God and Sovior” were invited, however. Thus the aim of
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the world council is to bring together leaders and repre
sentatives of all the Christian religions.
The immediate objective of the assembly is to adopt
a constitution for the world council, which has had a sort
of infromal, provisional existence since 1938.
Under the proposed constitution, denominations!
would remain separate just as they are today. Each
would continue to follow its identifying beliefs and prac-;
tices. The council would function, therefore, only in
those fields in which there is general agreement among
all Christians. Its purpose will be to define, voice and,
exert its moral influences on behalf of the Christian at-'
titude on problems common to Christian people every- i
where.
In a way it would be similar, on a worldwide basis, to j
the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America,
which is forty years old this year.
Although not yet formally organized, the would coun
cil has been functioning for some time for the rehabili- ■
tation of church life in Europe and for the aid of dis-!
placed persons.
Questions now under study by commissions of the
council include: Can the United Nations become the
symbol of human brotherhood?
Some of the backers of the world council idea are so
enthusiastic that they believe with Dr. Samuel M. Ca
vert of the federal council that it may produce some
thing “as creative as the Reformation.”
Certainly that prediction would not be too glowing if
the world council should develop into the voice of united
Christianity everywhere.
In the meantime, it will make it possible for church
men of many countries to meet on a common ground. In
cidentally, it should provide a liberal education in the
actualities of the world today to certain Protestant lead
ers in America, who, because they are afraid to look the
problems of Godless Russian totalitarianism in the face,
have adopted a sort of religious variation of the doctrine
of political isolationism which governed America’s deal
ings with other countries for so many years.
SLOW-MOTION JUSTICE
The Justice Department has asked the Army to arrest
“Tokyo Rose” on charges of treason for her wartime ra
dio broadcasts from Japan.
At the rate the wheels of justice are grinding, cases
of this kind should be cleaned up some time after World
War III or IV. Always provided the defendants haven’t
died of old age.
DEFENESTRATION ENTRY?
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It is reported that Russia may send a team of contest
ants to the next Olympic Games in 1952. Already, it is
said, considerable interest is being worked up over a
possible new event, the running high jump—from win
dows.
CHURCHES
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday—
Masses at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m.
At the Base Chapel at 4:30 p.m.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastors - Rev. H. R. Amundsen
and Rev. Theran McGrew
Sunday:
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
Wednesday - 3:30 pm. • Chil
dren’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayer
Meeting.
FEDERATED CHURCH
Sunday
10:00 a.m. Sunday School.
PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday—
Sunday School..10:30 a.m.
Evening service .7:45 p.m.
Wednesday—
Bible Study.7:45 pm.
EVERYONE WELCOME
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Corner of Third and Division
Rev. Lewis I. Hudgins, Pastor
“Love comes unseen; we onyl
see it go.”—Austin Dobson.
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School Classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning message.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and spe
cial music.
8:00 p.m. Evening message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Pr»y*r.
Come and bring your BiDle.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelisation Society
Rev. Vern Rimling, Pastor
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Tuesday: ,
7:30 p.m. Prayer and Testimony
Thursday:
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Bible Club for
Boys and Girls.
Friday:
7:30 p.m. Bible Study.
New Translation of
Old Testament
YONKERS, N. Y. </P> — A new
modern-English translation of the
Old Testament is being produced
by the Roman Catholic Church to
replace a text in use since 1609.
The Rev. Stephen J. Hartdegen
said recently the project is nearly
complete. He is secretary of a com
mittee of 30 scholars who have
been working for the last five
years years on translations of an
cient Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek
manuscripts. -•
New versions of the book of
Genesis already have been printed,
and two copies have been present
ed to Pope Pius XII. General pub
lication began this week.
Such words as “thou” and “thee”
are being eliminated from the new
version, and replaced with the
modern pronoun, “You.” “Thy” be
, comes “your” in the new version,
j and “see is substituted for “be
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