Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...churches of America must evangeize or die. There isn't any group in the city of Philadelphia which is adequately caching the multitudes for Christ. We must admit that the holding of evangeistic services in our churches will not meet his problem. Even such a united effort as he National Christian Mission, as valuable as that was, did not reach the masses if our population. . . . Sporadic efforts at revival services will no longer suffice-our efforts must be wider and more sustained. In the meantime, we recommend to our churches the absolute necessity of renewed effort to secure...
...William T. Manning of New York carefully instructed God Almighty as follows: "O God our Father . . . grant that we may give our utmost aid to Great Britain . and that we may do this without delay for the defense of our own land, for the preservation of Christian civilization . . . through Christ our Lord. Amen." >Said Archbishop Chrysanthos of Athens, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church:' "Fascist Italy has indeed forgotten that from our land proceeded the Holy Fathers who first gave her the light of the Gospel and fed her with the milk of true reverence...
...America has taken the Italian to its heart. . . . We believe that bondage to Hitler is as bad as bondage to Stalin. Rise up in your might, sons of Italy, and follow the peaceful aspirations of our Holy Father and your own King. Italy belongs in the axis of Christ...
...different. Diego makes politics in his pictures, Orozco is more poetic and lyric, Siquieros continues to be a great painter in spite of his politics." Cantú would have liked to do frescos, but says he got no commissions from the Mexican Government because he refused to paint Christ with the head of a donkey saints with the heads of pigs. "Although I am not very clerical," says he, "I do not go so far." Merida, who lives in Mexico City, and Cantú, who plans to return there soon, both hope that Mexico's President Avila Camacho will...
...Christ is seldom mentioned reverently in a nightclub, and His story has never been made into a floor show-until last year in Manhattan. Since then the gospel story, sung in a spiritual called John the Revelator, has regularly evoked pin-drop silence in both downtown and uptown branches of Barney Josephson's Café Society. John the Revelator is one of the hit songs of a Negro group named the Golden Gate Quartet, whose hushed voices, to the rhythm of reverential thigh-slaps and foot-taps, make spirituals sound-in the jazzmen's phrase-out of this...