Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Endorsed and sent to the constituent churches for approval a plan for a North American Council of the Churches of Christ which will merge eight interdenominational agencies into the largest church ' body in the Western Hemisphere...
...Elected Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker of the Protestant Episcopal Church as President of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America...
...face the dilemma which always faces distinctively Christian bodies. We must ... not confine ourselves to uttering mere platitudes. We must . . . avoid seeming to put the authority of Christ and His Church behind political and economic schemes which, however laudable in purpose, may be presently impracticable. . . . Actually, I believe that Christ was the great realist. ... He did not propound specific reforms and advocate specific revolts. But what He taught operated as political and social dynamite, because those that believed His word were forced to adopt a revolutionary attitude toward the social and political systems under which they lived...
Leading the choir will be G. Wallace Woodworth '24, associate professor of Music. First selection offered will be a chorale "Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her" by Bach, followed by two English carols "Christ is born of maiden fair" and "the First Noel." Three more carols "Good King Wenceslas," "A Dream of Christmas," and "The Three Kings" will be sung...
...many an intellectual maverick, from Frederick Turner's theory of the frontier to Admiral Mahan's theories of the influence of sea power. Mahan's faith in a British and American crusade committing the U.S. to a "world-spanning imperialist mission in the name of Christ and civilization" is posed against Mark Twain's dour disbelief in extending the blessings of civilization to "Our Brother Who Sits in Darkness...