Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief U. S. church which treats human ailments by prayer is the Church of Christ, Scientist. Having failed last year to kill a similar prophylaxis bill in its home State, Massachusetts, the Church had lobbied for the Senate amendment and sent its Washington one-man Committee on Publications, William G. Biederman, to the House subcommittee hearing last week to see that it stuck. Committeeman Biederman argued Christian Science's case on, broad Constitutional grounds while physicians and welfare workers simply held out for silver nitrate on its own merits. Said District Health Officer Dr. George C. Ruhland: "I have...
...Wall Street clerks and runners, several loafers, a handful of worshipers and some Roman Catholic nuns dropped in at odd times last week on Manhattan's old Trinity Church to inspect a large cabinet in the nave. They beheld, behind glass, an illuminated statuet of Jesus Christ, praying in a Garden of Gethsemane in which every leaf and blade of grass was meticulously modeled and painted. Every four and one-half minutes the lights slowly dimmed and the haloed plaster head of Jesus raised slowly heavenward. This was "the first animated diorama ever made of a religious subject," lent...
...diminish in size, merging imperceptibly with a curved, painted background. Diorama Corp. is proud of its historical and pictorial accuracy, has done much work for the Smithsonian Institution as well as for such firms as Ford and Sears Roebuck. Its President Edward Heckler Burdick conceived the idea of doing Christ in Gethsemane, to be followed by a half-dozen other Biblical scenes for possible exhibition at the New York World's Fair...
...Gethsemane diorama was lately on view at Diorama Corp.'s Chicago offices. A Mrs. Ryan viewed it and, unaware that it is animated by electric motors, fainted when Christ's head moved. She told her good friend, Trinity's Rector Frederic Sydney Fleming, this experience and he got President Burdick to lend the diorama, valued at $7,500, for the Easter season...
LIFE OF JESUS - François Mauriac- Longmans, Green ($2.50). Simple, sincere retelling of the Gospel narrative, focused on Christ's human aspects. Catholic François Mauriac anticipates that his "rash book" will offend many, but is pleased that it has already won over 100,000 readers in France...