Word: christe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James 5:16). Wholehearted surrender to the Will of God is a fundamental principle of this group. One of the two finest Christian gentlemen I have ever known is a worker in this live and hopeful movement which is increasingly winning people to a new personal companionship with Jesus Christ...
...modern theatre began as a form for sermons as it is now a subject for them. Processions, pageants, performances -this was a slow, natural sequence. Not be fore the 1 5th century did audiences, growing more interested in the character of the customary devil than that of Christ, cause these moralities to lose their holy character. Dramatic interpretations of the gospels are not yet without their spiritual value. Last week, in Canterbury Cathedral at Canterbury, England, there was performed The Coming of Christ, a nativity play written in the antique tradition by famed Poet John Masefield...
...published that such an exhibition, led by a noted pugilist, is to be staged for the benefit of a Protestant church; resolved, that we disclaim any sympathy with such a benefit and protest the use of such demoralizing methods in the name of the Church of Christ...
...times without avail. At last the two leading candidates withdrew their names, a Korean lady made a potent speech and the Methodists elected the 33rd Bishop of the Church by a sweeping majority. He was the famed Rev. Eli Stanley Jones, missionary in India and author of The Christ of the Indian Road. No sooner had he received this honor, ultimate for any Methodist and seldom given to a man only 44 years old, than Dr. Jones declined to accept it. Said...
These words did not seem out of character to those who knew Dr. Jones or to those (of whom there are altogether well over 300,000) who had read his book. The Christ of the Indian Road is a simple unfolding of a brilliant idea, to wit: Christ as a holy, heroic figure appeals to oriental people as deeply, if not more deeply, than to occidentals, upon whom the accidents of history first imprinted His message. His appeal for orientals differs in that they feel the native mysticism in His unruffled character, the contemplative idea of thought rather than...