Word: altar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without a flock, he was not bitter. "You see," he observed with true Buddhist detachment, "whether God says a thing or Buddha says it, it's still the same message. I only wish, and wish very strongly, that everyone may kneel with a beautiful heart before the altar...
...come to you, my people. His fiery eyes do not flash through clouds of incense or from altar candles . . . This new god is not a stone statue worn smooth by the kisses of the faithful-he was not born in heaven . . . The new god is born from earth and blood-he strides ahead, and under the thunder of his steps the globe trembles from East to West. This is the red god. The Seine shudders at his impact, and tries to break its banks. Westminster trembles before him like Jericho, and across the green ocean his red shadow falls...
...sixteenth century Gothic altar pieces of what Kuhn called, "unusually high quality," came from the Metropolitan Museum...
...nominal connection with their old church and 124 had not attended church for a year. Of the 449 wives involved in such marriages ... 60 claimed no church affiliation and 91 had not attended church for a year." Usually it is the husband who sacrifices his religion on the altar of marital concord. Typical, reports Leiffer, is an interview with a housewife who had been a Presbyterian and had married a Roman Catholic...
...Unitarians honestly disbelieve and deny the facts and truths about the Lord Jesus Christ declared in the Christian Creed. At every service in an Episcopal Church that creed is solemnly recited before the altar by the clergy and the people together. Is it consistent for one who represents definite denial of that creed to be asked to take official part in a service which is based wholly upon belief in it? Would it be consistent to ask an earnest and convinced Marxian Communist to take official part in a meeting held to pay honor to the Constitution of the United...