Word: caverting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fleet ham, and Ben Whitehill are the other boys who cavert in the outer gardens...
This point was made more sharply by Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert of the Federal Council of Churches, who complained that a visitor to the U. S. "would not find Negro and white Christians worshipping together before God, who is the Father of both. He would not find the employer and his factory workers meeting in the same place of worship. . . . The hungry, the insecure and the dispossessed he would seldom find in any church...
...great was the name of Dickens, however, that few churchmen took offense. "The time for the publication of The Life of Our Lord could not be more opportune," rejoiced General Secretary S. McCrea Cavert of the Federal Churches of Christ. "Many people," agreed Dean Luther Allan Weigle of the Yale Divinity School, "will read this because Charles Dickens wrote it and it will help to make many acquainted with the life of our Lord...
...flag. Because few churches hoisted pennants outdoors the question of propriety bothered no one until last week. Then the Navy Department was asked for an opinion. It shied away, saying that it could make no ruling about inland churches. While the Federal Council's Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert went on investigating, last Sunday Queens Village Baptist Church continued to put God above Country...
...Protestant gifts never amounted to more than 1% of the U.S. income. With the national income declining from 85 billions in 1929 to 40 billions in 1932, the church income dropped from $581,000,000 only to $378,000,000. Said the Federal Council's Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert: "The evidence certainly is that the American people are not ready to discard their churches...