Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he said: "Just now, the Fundamentalists are giving us one of the worst exhibitions of bitter intolerance that the churches of this country have ever seen." He proceeded to state his own Modernist position by questioning the Virgin Birth, the literal inspiration of the Scriptures, the belief that Christ will return "upon a heap of blazing clouds." He concluded: "If people must accept these interpretations or get out, then out of the Christian church would go some of the best Christian life and consecration of this generation...
George Albert Smith, 75, goateed Senior Member of his church's Council of the Twelve Apostles, became the eighth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). He inherits the mantle of all-powerful Prophet, Seer and Revelator of 954,000 Latter-day Saints...
...reopening of London's National Gallery last week, King, Queen and ordinary art lover saluted old friends as Rembrandt's Woman Bathing, Rubens' Judgment of Paris and Titian's Christ and Mary Magdalene. These and 47 other choice paintings were the first of the National Gallery's treasures to be returned to London from the 300-ft.-deep mountain caves near Blaenau Festiniog, Wales, where they had been stored since the blitz. What with shortages of transport, return of the entire collection will take about three months...
Arthur Bell, who claims the supernatural quality of agility (i.e., of being able to transport himself anywhere in an instant by an act of his own will), was not stopped. While his attorneys appealed his conviction, he planned a bigger enterprise - Christ's Church of the Golden Rule...
...should men be split asunder by abstruse considerations, such as the nature of the body of Jesus Christ?" Obsessed with dreams of a happier world, Owen was nonetheless practical enough to become part owner of a cotton mill at New Lanark in Scotland. There Owen practiced his preaching, "to show that man is the best of all possible ma chineries, a being responsible to the best care." Owen's partners watched his experiments patiently, but bathtubs, school rooms, shorter hours, little mill children clustered lovingly about an owner, and "other airy projects" were too much for them. They presented...