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...defeat done to the faith of Toyohiko Kagawa, one of the most famed of Oriental Christian leaders? Last week in Tokyo TIME'S Chief Pacific Correspondent Manfred Gottfried talked at length with Kagawa, founder of Japan's Kingdom of God movement, biographer of Christ, and militant pacifist. War has not shaken Kagawa's faith; he is still a Christian. He is also still a patriotic Jap. Gottfried's report...
Administration of C.P.S. activity is directed and largely supported by the three traditional pacifist sects (Quaker, Mennonite, Brethren), but it is under the military supervision of the Selective Service System. Some sectarians wonder: should men obeying a religious authority which to them is superior to that of the state place themselves under such Government control? Others ask: should the Government accept the labor of these men without paying them...
Japan's most-famed Christian is a near-blind pacifist named Toyohiko Kagawa (TIME, March 12). Of recent years, he has been accused of being a mouthpiece for Jap propaganda. Last week, in the Living Church, ex-Missionary L. S. Albright of the International Missionary Council suggested that Kagawa be not judged too hastily...
Last week UNRRA was busy fulfilling its half of the bargain. As 100 more Dunker volunteers set sail for Europe, six fat Dunker Brown Swiss bulls were safe in Greece, 150 Dunker heifers awaited passage to Poland. Said pleased Pacifist Bushong: "Perhaps shootin' isn't the only way out of this world mess...
Into the breach stepped brisk, friendly Benjamin G. Bushong, dairy farmer, cemetery owner, and chief red-tape cutter of the 226-year-old pacifist Church of the Brethren ("Dunkers" - because they practice baptism by total immersion). For months Dunker Bushong had been pushing his church's own overseas relief program (TIME, July 24, 1944), only to strike a snag. City Dunkers had raised money for calves and feed. Country Dunkers had fed and fattened the animals into fine bulls and heifers. The Dunkers had the cattle but they had no ships...