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...nine top-ranking Japanese Christians who foregathered unofficially with 16 influential representatives of U.S. churches at Riverside, Calif. After six days, the Americans seemed satisfied that there was nothing to get excited about in the recent restrictions on missionary activity in Japan. Briefly, the story told by Bishop Yoshimune Abe and his comrades was this...
These sudden moves startled American churchmen. They suspected that the new church was united more by Government pressure than by spiritual guidance, feared that Japanese Christians, regulated and dominated by a totalitarian State, might apostasize. But, said Bishop Abe: "The Government has not interfered and has no intention of interfering with the doctrine of the church." Only State control is administrative enforcement of the 1940 Religious Bodies Law (which recognizes Christianity as an official Japanese religion along with Shintoism and Buddhism). All church executives must be Japanese subjects, and no native church worker can be supported by foreigners; but American...
Japan is sending its No. 1 churchman, Bishop Yoshimune Abe, and its No. 1 Christian, trachoma-cured Toyohiko Kagawa, to a peace parley with U.S. church leaders at Riverside, Calif, next week. Its purpose as stated by the Japanese: "Prayer and to explore ways to preserve peace between Japan and the United States...
...subjects not likely to be aired are Bishop Abe's practice of worshiping at the Shinto Shrine at Ise and the decision of the Government-inspired church union to modify the Apostles' Creed as suggested by the Ministry of Education. Some of the deletions: the Virgin Birth because it was "immoral," the Resurrection because it was "unscientific and superstitious," the Last Judgment because it implied that the Emperor could be judged...
Gluyas Williams '11 won the 1939 medal as a result of his cartoons of suburban life, and last year's award was given to Robert E. Sherwood '18 in recognition of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois...