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missionary program was faced with a number of dangerous competitors. “Whether or not communism should be classed as a religion is a matter of definition,” it asserted. “ At any rate it operates with evangelical zeal and claims to supersede religion. The resurgence of other missionary re ligions, particularly Islam, and in some places Buddhism and Hindusim, together with the rise of aberrant forms of Christianity, serves to re mind Christians in the historic tradi tion that there is no time to he lost if their witness is to be effective in this generation.” Nazi Book Condemned The West German Government’s Censorship Board has classified as “ dangerous to Youth” a book by the most decorated veteran of the Nazi armed forces. The book “ Of War And Peace,” calls World War II a holy war. It glorifies the Hitler regime. It dismisses Nazi atrocities as mistakes that occurred in the heat of battle. The author, Hans Ulrich Rudel, for mer colonel and pilot of a fighter- bomber, was credited with having destroyed a Soviet battleship and 519 tanks in 2,800 combat mission. The Censorship Board called the work a “ hate and propaganda book against the present democratic order.” The Board, established six years ago, in cludes representatives of the arts, book publishers and distributors, youth organizations, the churches and the state governments. Moon Atlas Published The publication of an atlas of the far side of the moon was announced recently by Tass, the Soviet press agency. The atlas contains thirty pic tures based on those taken by the So viet moon rocket a year ago. About 500 objects were identified on the moon’s far side, which has never been viewed from the earth. Tass said spe cial deciphering devices had been used to increase up to 100 times the contrast of pictures radioed back by the satellite. A. V. Topichev, vice pres ident of the Soviet Academy of Science, wrote in Isvestia that the moon’s far side has none of the vast dark depressions seen on the side to ward the earth and called “ seas.” Craters, mountains, and other fea tures exist on both sides, he said, but the newly discovered “ Sea of Mos cow” and “ Sea of Dreams” on the far side are relatively small.
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Worms can probably serve as lab oratory animals in testing for en- terotoxin, the food poisoning material produced by staphylococcus aureus organisms, University of Wisconsin studies have indicated. The worms used are called soil nematodes and are just large enough to be seen with the naked eye in strong light. Two bacteriologists, Myrtha Rosas de Valle and Elizabeth McCoy, said the nema tode test looks extremely promising. They pointed out that nematodes could be mass produced and easily controlled in laboratory cultures. Be cause of this, it is possible to use more of them in testing than if more ex pensive animals were involved, thus increasing the accuracy of the test. Results of the test are easily inter preted by watching the nematodes that had been eating the food to be tested. If the test is positive, they lose their snake-like motion temporarily if mildly affected, or die if severely poisoned. The minimum time for pro ducing a reaction on the nematodes is thirty minutes; readings are con firmed after one hour, and if no effect is shown after four hours, negative results are reported. Sweeping changes in the traditional overseas missionary program of the Protestant Episcopal Church were called for recently by a group of six teen prominent bishops, priests, and laymen meeting in Dallas, Texas. In short, the group found the church’s foreign missionary enterprise weak and outmoded in a world that threat ens to pass it by. “ As things stand now,” the group observed, “ The world is moving faster than the Episcopal Church. We cannot slow down the world, even if we would; but we can and must speed up the church.” The proposed changes, one of which casts each church member in the role of a missionary, highlighted a fifty-four- page study prepared over the last two years by a special committee. In addi tion to recommending a number of administrative changes, the study emphasized that foreign missions can no longer be serious and effective until the church as a whole under stands that all of its members “ are in fact missionaries, whether at home or abroad, whether clergy or laity.” The study warned that the Christian Church Unit' Asks Mission Changes
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