Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor Navy Chaplain (TIME, Feb. 2) who cracked, "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, I just got one of the" so and sos, was infused with the same spirit of the Christ (Matthew XXI: 12, 13) as He overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and also cracked, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves...
...Wolfe was Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, rector of Manhattan's fabulously wealthy Trinity Church. He knew that between 1922 and 1934 the younger man had built up the congregation of St. Andrew's Church in Kansas City from 90 to 1,100 members, that since 1934 his Christ Church, Houston, had had just about the most meteoric rise in all the South. In 1940 Dr. Fleming asked Dr. De Wolfe to preach at Trinity's Lenten services. Bishop William T. Manning of New York came to hear him, promptly invited him to become dean of Manhattan...
...domed, bespectacled Sir Stafford Cripps, 52, able leftist lawyer. When he was expelled from the Labor Party in 1939 for trying to form a united front with Liberals and Communists, it was said "the Party has blown its brains out." A vegetarian and devout non-Church Christian, often called "Christ and Carrots" by his friends, Sir Stafford has long believed in a possible British-Russian alliance, worked hard maintaining even relations during the Soviet-German Pact. Last week he was widely mentioned for a high post in the Churchill Cabinet...
...craze. "Few things," he added, "are more demoralizing than to yield to the tyranny of superstition-that moral and intellectual corrosive which destroys the will and undermines the character. . . . If this . . . were to get a hold upon our people it would bring defeat, ruin and damnation. The religion of Christ can never come to terms with...
...young men rapped sharply at the shiny knockers of old Colonial doors. Sleepy householders were told: "Be at Christ Church for a special service at 11 a.m. There will be two distinguished guests. Don't talk till afterward...