Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jesus to be the most sacred thing, is holy. What then should we do when holy things are beneath the war machine or threatened by it? This is the issue and, in the presence of this reality, the overwhelming number of those who seek to know the mind of Christ find themselves following Him when they fling their lives against the war machine...
...books. They lost two sons due to lack Of hospital facilities. But a quarter century of hardship and effort has only increased Laubach's confidence in his call. In The Silent Billion Speak, latest of his numerous rapturous books, he writes that "if we can untangle Christ from the terrible handicap of Christendom, which has kept so many millions from Him, we will be doing ... a priceless service...
...Reformed Church's General Synod, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., told the State Department that "the duty has been laid upon us by Christ to preach the Gospel to all nations. . . . [To] restrain all but one faith from doing what under conscience is the duty of all faiths is a violation of religious liberty...
...Quoting a sentence of Chiang Kai-shek's Christian testimony ... TIME, April 26: "This [becoming a follower of Jesus Christ] makes me realize more fully than ever that the success of our revolution depends upon men of faith, men of character, who because of their faith will not sacrifice principle for personal safety...
...stooping effigy of Jesus, with jointed arms hanging from a green cotton dress, had human hair on its head. A small naked statue, honored as a protector against syphilis, sat in a shrine made from an old oilcan. A portable sepulcher held a recumbent Christ, whose bloodstained jaw and neck could be moved puppetwise by strings. These crude but striking effigies formed part of an exhibition of Religious Folk Art of the Southwest which opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...