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...these sentiments had been expressed by some left-wing religious leader like Dr. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, no one would have been much surprised. But they happened to be part of a committee report to the Toronto and Kingston Synod of the notably conservative Presbyterian Church in Canada. The committee took pains to make its sentiments clear...
Like most missionaries, "Smilin' Sam" Higginbottom went to India to save souls for Christianity. When he saw the terrible poverty, he decided that souls could not be saved while the body was starving. Finally the Presbyterian (U.S.A.) mission board heard his persistent plea, brought him back to study agriculture...
...Higginbottom's missionary labors have been recognized. Princeton invented the degree of Doctor of Philanthropy for him; the British Government decorated him four times; the Presbyterian Church made him its moderator in 1939. Last week he planned to write an agricultural textbook for Indians and to become an American citizen. Said he: "I've just never had five years [necessary to become a citizen] I could spare...
These pictures of John Benjamin ("J.B.") Powell, onetime editor of the Shanghai China Weekly Review, show him 1) last week at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital and 2) when he returned on the Gripsholm after spending the winter of 1942 in a Japanese prison camp (TIME, Sept. 7, 1942). He lost part of both feet from gangrene acquired by squatting for hours on the cold prison floor. Surgeons first tried tiny grafts of skin, later had to resort to large pieces of flesh from Powell's thigh. Since January, wearing two shoes on each foot (cost $212), Powell...
...five-clawed dragon." Twenty American gunboats lay on the Whangpoo, simply waiting for him to whistle them up to shell his enemies to bits. He was familiar with the tomb of General Grant, and hailed from Pittsburgh - a spot that in piety ranked second only to 156 Fifth Avenue (Presbyterian Headquarters...