Word: baptisme
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...study theology. In 1923 Lydia Gruchy completed her courses. But when the United Church of Canada was formed two years later by a merging of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational bodies, it did not follow the lead of U. S. Methodists in ordaining women. Unable to administer such sacraments as baptism and marriage, Lydia Gruchy began preaching and teaching among young girls, finally became assistant to Rev. Geoffrey Glover of St. Andrew's Church in Moose...
...break with Moscow, where his name is now execrated; resignation by Chiang of all his Chinese offices on two separate occasions; one visit by the General to Japan where years ago he got his original military training at Tokyo Military Academy; his marriage to Christian Miss Soong, and his baptism as a Southern Methodist after the Ningpo Napoleon had said, "I feel the need of a God such as Jesus Christ...
...idea like the League of Nations which may some day work. Its formulators invited all Christendom to accept: " 1) the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as revealed Word of God; 2) the Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian Faith; 3) the two Sacraments -Baptism and the Supper of the Lord, ministered with un failing use of Christ's words of institution, and of the elements ordained by Him; 4) The Historic Episcopate locally adapted to the varying needs of the nations and peoples...
Getting their collegiate baptism under fire, the Yardling grid candidates will terminate a weeks' hard work with scrimmage at one o'clock this afternoon. Following an hour's practice, they will file into the Stadium to see how their elders...
...altar, Sister Mary Kimmer. beauteous, blonde 19-year-old evangelist, exhorted the sanctified to come up "receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost," give up all worldly things, become sanctified. A man who felt the spirit move toward a closer personal touch with Jesus went to the "sinners' bench.'' Behind him the congregation's feet stomped, hands clapped, voices cried, ''Glory, glory, glory, glory." Praying as he became the focus of mass hysteria, the man began to quiver, shake, jerk in a St. Vitus' dance. "Let him get through, oh Lord! More power...