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Show WAR HITS MISSIONARY WORK Church Boards In America Hear of Demoralization In Europe and Far East. Rev. Dr. S. Karl Taylor, secretary of the board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal church, said that more than 250 Protestant clergymen clergy-men have gone to the front with the French armies, and that practically all of the German Methodist ministers engaged in religious and missionary work in south Germany are with the German forces. The Methodist Theological Theo-logical school at Frankfort, Dr. Taylor said, had been closed, as nearly all of the students were called to the colors. "Bishop Nuelson in charge of the board's affairs in Europe, reports that churches are distributed and families and congregations broken up," Dr. Taylor said, "Rev. Ernest W. Bywssne, superintendent of the church in France, sailed from New York on the Minnehaha, hoping to reach parishes in southeastern France which are said to be in great distress." Fear was expressed by officials of the board here that if Turkey goes to war missionary workers in Tunis and Algeria will be in great peril. Missionaries In India and eastern I Asia, it is said, are facing serious problems growing out of financial and trade disorders. When orders for the mobilization of Turkish troops were posted at Beirut, the inhabitants fled to the mountains by thousands escape military service, serv-ice, according to a letter received at the offices of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions at New York from Dr. F. E. Hopkins, a missionary worker. work-er. Every bank in the city, he said, was closed, and business was demoralized. |