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From their tour conductors came ready answers. Mormon temples, which also house executive offices (hence the switchboard), are used primarily for two "sacred ordinances": "marriage for eternity" and "baptism of the dead" (for which the London Temple has a massive font supported by twelve bronze oxen). Couples marrying for eternity first disrobe (hence the locker rooms), dress in white linen (the powder rooms), visit a small auditorium (Celestial room No. 1) to see slides showing "where we came from, why we are here, where we are going, and the laws which must be obeyed to attain the celestial degree...
That picture showing the Witnesses' biggest baptism: Is it a baptism or a mass drowning exercise? Suicide would certainly be faster in reaching the revered kingdom without waiting for Armageddon to strike...
This week, almost unnoticed against the splashy baptism of the nuclear-powered submarine named after a Greek god, the Navy prepared to launch a slim, 3,990-ton destroyer at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Yard in Pascagoula, Miss. The destroyer's name: Parsons, after the man who armed the first atom bomb dropped...
...wealthy, mink-loving Lady Docker, her temper bubbling to a boil, sat in Monaco's overstuffed Hotel de Paris and mulled over the insult: all she wanted was to take her son Lance, 19, to a reception given by Prince Rainier and his Grace to celebrate the baptism of their princeling, Albert-and some palace flunkies had had the nerve to turn Lance away. Crossing her own little Rubicon, Norah Docker seized a paper Monacan flag used as a table decoration and hurled it to the floor. Word of the indignity soon burned the ears of Their Serene Highnesses...
Luther recognized only two sacraments: baptism and communion. And in the Lord's Supper he insisted that the bread was not changed into Christ's body by the priest but revealed as Christ's body by the faith of the recipient. Nevertheless. Luther did not give an inch to those who saw- the Eucharist as symbolic only. ''This is my body,'' he wrote in chalk on the conference table at which he met with his fellow reformer Zwingli in 1529. and Luther always maintained that when the Christian believer received the host...