Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Church. In 1775 George Washington, before taking command of the nation's first army, prayed in his white pew in Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. Before his decision to take command of the Virginia forces, Robert E. Lee prayed there in 1861. In Alexandria, at daybreak Thursday, the balding, vigorous, 34-year-old rector, the Rev. Edward Randolph Welles, summoned eight young men of the parish, gave them a Secret-Service-combed list of 250 parishioners' names, admission cards...
Colonel Williamson, an English land agent with two million acres to dispose of, dreamed of establishing a landed aristocracy in the most spacious European tradition. The Publick Universal Friend, a female embodiment of Christ on earth, lived and prophesied there with her seven handmaidens; she was determined that the land should become an American Canaan. A European fourflusher named Berezy made trouble with a deluded rabble he had brought with him from the gutters of Hamburg. The Maryland aristocrat Peregrine Fitzhugh freed his 40 slaves to found a settlement of free Africans. Simcoe, Governor of Canada, still had hopes...
...Plan A, a pious proposal that the eight great agencies of U.S. Protestantism should work together more closely. After the bombing, the 200 delegates at Atlantic City put through proposal C with a whoop calling for unification of all the agencies into a new "Council of the Churches of Christ in North America...
...that, through obedience to thy law, we may show forth thy praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in thee to fail; all which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord...
...cracks at Protestants with the coming of the first Protestant settlers. After praising the "notable humanity"of various Spanish conquistadores, he declares that "the policy of [Indian] extermination had to wait for the coming of English Protestants," reflects sadly that "all the Indians . . . might have been won for Christ . . . had not the Protestant settlements undone the work of the Spanish and French missionaries...