Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noting that British airplane stocks are already soaring, Stanley Baldwin last week added: "I hope there will be no profiteering in a time we might call an emergency. ... I have been made almost physically sick to think that I and other statesmen of Europe should, 2,000 years after Christ was crucified, be spending our time thinking how we can take the mangled bodies of children to hospitals and how we can keep poison gas from going down the throats of people...
Amplifying this last week, Lecturer Anderson said he might be called a Christian Scientist, psychologist, evangelist or Baptist, "but I do not claim to be any of these. I simply believe in the lessons of Jesus Christ." Asked if he thought he could become President of the U. S. simply by believing in it, he parried: "Ah! If! If I believed it! But I would not believe that. A woman in London asked me whether if she believed she were Queen Mary she would be Queen Mary. I said yes, that there was only one sane woman in England...
...Sundays ago Rev. Dr. John Hess McComb, broad-shouldered 36-year-old bachelor, mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's Broadway Presbyterian Church to preach on "Christ and Him Crucified." He was well aware that this and subsequent sermons would be worth exactly $77,296 to his new church, which had called him from Forest Park Presbyterian in Baltimore. That sum was bequeathed to Broadway Church by its longtime Fundamentalist pastor, Rev. Dr. Walter Duncan Buchanan, who died last year, aged 74, worth $1,086,576 which he had largely acquired by marrying into...
...caused the Presbyterian Church so much trouble? Mr. McComb finally said that he had never given a penny to the rebel board, but: ''I must refuse to bind myself unconditionally to any of the boards of the Church. I feel that my loyalty is due to Jesus Christ and to Him alone. I will support those agencies which honor Him and which are pleasing to Him and His glory...
...King Christ, this world is all aleak; and lifepreservers there are none: and waves which only He may walk Who dares to call Himself...