Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willis P. Miller, 28, pastor of the Disciples of Christ First Christian Church at Lynn, Mass., shared his pulpit with a new "assistant"-a ventriloquist's dummy named Victor who interrupts his sermons and Bible stories with questions, and, occasionally, quips...
...French government officially expressed the nation's "deep emotion." In London, Ernest Bevin rumbled: "[The trial] is utterly repugnant . . ." Six thousand Britons jammed London's Albert Hall, while thousands waited outside in the rain, some kneeling in prayer: speaker after speaker denounced the Budapest trial. Cried one: "Christ is indeed the Prince of Peace, but not of peace at any price...
...trial would be remembered and discussed for many years. One lesson was presently and dreadfully clear. Once the Communists had established their rule, no man, however strong, could be sure of maintaining his integrity. Mindszenty, looking forward to martyrdom, had quoted St. Paul: "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain...
...Century Robert Browne, father of Congregationalism. Last week, the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches, deciding that it had tarried long enough over a latter-day reformation, voted to merge with the 700,000-member Evangelical & Reformed Church. The new denomination, to be called the United Church of Christ, will number approximately 2,000,000 members. It is the largest Protestant union since the Methodist Protestant Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the M.E. Church, South were reunited...
...what local churches do or do not do about the new United Church of Christ is, according to the terms of the merger, up to them. Following good Congregational practice, all must vote individually whether to change names, merge congregations, or just go along as though nothing had happened. The two denominations will definitely become one only on the national level, in their programs for Home Missions, Foreign Missions, Christian Education and Social Action...