Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attached a crucifix. The size and number of the beads remind the faithful, in fingering them, to repeat prayers in "decades" or groups of ten Ave Marias (Hail Marys) preceded by a Pater Noster (Lord's Prayer) and followed by a Gloria, while meditating on the mysteries of Christ's life, death and resurrection. Usually a Catholic says five decades, or a total of some 60 brief prayers, at a time, but the true Rosary consists of 15 decades...
...Wild, and also Doctors Friedrich, Dunn and Nash. All of the lecturers will emphasize the extremely and practical useful role that the Christian Church can play in leading this chaotic world back to some degree of sanity, and they will lay particular stress on the present-day values of Christ's teachings...
...necessity of a firm foundation of religion for the progress of modern civilization was stressed by Roscoe Pound, former dean of the Law School, and first of the new University professors, in an informal address at Christ Church last night...
...Mormon) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pioneer virtues are thrift, diligence, discipline. Last year a "security program" was launched to take 85,000 Mormons off Federal relief, to Mormon leaders a distasteful institution (TIME, June 8, 1936). Since then, jobs have been found for some 23,000 Mormons, the Church has taken over the support of 30,000. Most of the idle were given agricultural work and 24 big regional warehouses have been built to store produce which is the result of redoubled Mormon husbandry. In and around Salt Lake City, 125,000 Mormons were urged last...
...proud to have done missionary work without pay. There are today some 2,000 picked Mormon missionaries working in 23 countries, always traveling in pairs of which the more experienced is the "Senior Companion." A Mormon salestalk emphasizes the practicality of Mormonism, its orthodox belief in God and Jesus Christ, its healthiness with its teachings against alcohol, tobacco, tea & coffee, "refined foods." Once convinced by a missionary that "silly tales" about Mormons have been "fully disproved," a prospect is likely to be impressed by Mormon statistics-literacy among saints in the U. S. 99.7%, births...