Word: christ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English Book of Common Prayer: "O Lord, most heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favor to behold Thy most gracious sovereign, Lord, King George. . . . Strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies, and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." Later in the service the President's rector read a resolution of thanks to the King, signed by Senior Warden Roosevelt and the other vestrymen...
...haunted the hearts and minds of men: the story of Jesus. Its source material is seed-small: the four Gospels, the New Testament apocrypha, the histories of Josephus, the pseudepigrapha.* Yet its literature is enormous. In Chautauqua, N. Y., famed cultural and religious resort, an Aula Christi (Hall of Christ) contains some 2,000 biographies and critical studies of Him.† Not only scholars but novelists have been gripped by His story. Ernest Renan wrote a prettified Life of Christ which was almost fiction. Giovanni Papini, on & off a Roman Catholic, lavished Latin enthusiasm on Jesus. In The Brook Kerith...
...revelation from heaven that he was Christ and in an attack of catatonic [mad] excitement became violent," ended up in a State hospital as a victim of schizophrenia...
...Punch contributor, cracked: "Those who supported and may still support Dr. Frank Buchman will no doubt like to be reminded now of one of the Doctor's most profound and famous sayings: 'Thank God for a man like Adolf Hitler who will stand against the anti-Christ of Communism.' I am, Sir, your obedient servant...
...higher grades his pupils visited farms, stores, police stations, post offices, airports, radio stations, studied transportation, geography, science, nature, all the while learning "Obedience to God," "Membership in Christ," "The Creed." Meanwhile, they had lessons each day in music, the three...