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...government immediately. By this time (1895), Korea, though still independent, was under heavy pressure from both the Russian and Japanese empires. Shrewdly concluding that a Western education and knowledge of English would be useful to a future Korean official, Rhee became a student at Pai Chai College, a Methodist mission school in Seoul. At Pai Chai he was exposed not only to English but to Christianity and Western political thought...
...prison, found that he could smuggle out editorials for his newspaper. In the long prison years he also wrote The Spirit of Independence, a book which seized the imagination of Korean patriots, helped establish Rhee as spiritual leader of the nationalist movement. By this time Rhee had become a Methodist-like China's Chiang Kaishek...
...Marxianity" is learned Anglican T. C. Chao, dean of Yenching University's School of Religion, who was elected two years ago as one of the six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches. In a recent circular letter, Dr. Chao and such other Christian venerables as Methodist Bishop Z. T. Kuang (who baptized Chiang Kai-shek 20 years ago) attempted to justify the reform program on the grounds that it enabled the church to "energetically participate in the construction of the new China...
...Methodist Parson Hiram Milo Frakes had ridden his pony into the patch of Kentucky wilderness cut off by Big Pine and Little Log Mountains to bring religion and book learning to the dirt-poor, illiterate mountaineers. When Scott Partin found that out, he gave the parson some land to start building his school and church on. Bill Henderson was another Kentuckian who helped. He chipped in a 65-acre farm because "he'd rather his children would have an education than to have the farm." Before he could see the settlement that Parson Frakes made of his land, Bill...
...Williams, Notre Dame's star quarterback, was voted best bet for outstanding back of the season yesterday in an Associated Press poll. Williams received 44 of 109 votes to barely win over Southern Methodist's 190-pound speedster, Kyle Rote...