Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour is at hand, Christ may appear on the clouds of heaven tomorrow, even this very night, and they must arouse the community. ... All this, to conventional folk, is disquieting, upsetting, alarming. ... So they try to drive the Witnesses away; they stir up the public authorities against them; in times of excitement and hysteria they organize mobs and beat them up. . . . Lastly there is the irritating question of the flag salute. . . . What were the early Christians doing but this very thing when they refused to put their pinch of salt upon the altars of the Roman emperor?" The practical examiner...
Their founder George Fox (1624-91) called them scornfully Friends because Christ said to his disciples, "I have called you friends." But because Founder Fox preached that the time had come for men to quake and tremble before the Lord, the irreverent called his following Quakers. The word has long since ceased to be a term of reproach...
...slender, upright physique, usually tall and [sometimes] has a symmetry and beauty of proportion that is aesthetically of the highest order." Dr. Sheldon found that many famous paintings of Jesus Christ represented...
With proper pomp and ceremony, Bishop Manning last week installed another dean: dark, handsome Dr. James Pernette De Wolfe, 45, formerly rector of Christ Church, Houston, Tex. Prayed the Bishop before the installation: "Almighty God, the Giver of all good gifts. . . . Grant we beseech Thee to this Thy servant, whom we receive this day as Dean of this Cathedral, that he may . . . dwell with his brethren in this Thy house in perfect love and peace...
...Last Sunday morning in the First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ohio, I preached a sermon from two texts: Lincoln's "With malice toward none" and Christ's "Love your enemy and pray for them that persecute you." . . .To my amazement I have never had a congregation respond with so many who have earnestly gripped my hand and said, "How we have waited for someone to say just that...