Word: christendom
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...aboard her cargo: 408 missionaries, including wives & children, bound for China and the Philippines to pick up where most of them left off five years ago. For those who had forgotten that Americans were pioneers, their faces were a reminder. Now those faces were set toward a frontier of Christendom. Seldom had travelers been so impatient to get under way. But Harry Lundeberg, boss of the strike-ridden Embarcadero, would make no exceptions. "We can't give 'em any relief," said...
...World Council of Churches had no reply from the Vatican. But the appeal from 70 Protestant leaders of eight nations that Christendom unite to insure a Christian peace (TIME, Aug. 12) had stirred a deep response in many a Christian quarter. Last week two U.S. publications, one Protestant, the other Roman Catholic, expressed with equal anxiety the hope that Christian hands could be joined...
Uncongenial Minds. In this symphony of friendship, many a Protestant thought he saw a disturbing possibility: would the Vatican want to employ a united Christendom to wage a holy war against Russia...
...German people, led and encouraged into a true Christian way, with the German churches built again into the fiber and framework of Christendom, could make its good contribution to Europe and the world. . . . But we are waiting too long...
...ideal was old and not yet realized but still good: Christendom united for the cause of Christian peace. Now it was raised once more. Last month Pope Pius urged Christian principles upon the peacemakers Last week Protestant leaders of eight nations, in London for a four-day meeting of the World Council of Churches, reiterated the word from Rome, called for a joining of Protestant and Catholic hands to let statesmen know the strength and power of the Christian faith...