Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Feng. Super-Tuchun Feng Yu-hsiang, "the Christian War Lord who protects Peking," was reported to be sending a large army down from his base at Kalgan, to discipline again the rebellious General Li (TIME, Jan. 4) in Chihli Province...
...doubt one of the issues will contain the expression "the famed God of the noted Christian religion." I shall take great pleasure in lighting my FURNACE with that...
...funds will be needed or made. If any shortage of funds develops, certain members have guaranteed sufficient financing. Such amplitude of money stopped tentative talk last summer of constructing a "skyscraper," church, like the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple to be built on Washington Heights, Manhattan, for Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, with apartments, club rooms, etc., to produce income for the support of the church. The Baptists scorned the idea...
...widely supposed that theological differences are relatively unimportant today. Astonishingly, Bishop Brent finds that they are vitally important, are, in fact, the most important differences which exist among Christians. Before varieties of Christians can deal unitedly with practical matters they must, says the world-circling Bishop, "face problems of faith and order, of sacrament and authority." Herein the Bishop, an intellectual modernist, departs from the American liberals, whose inclination is to sidestep questions of faith and order, of sacrament and authority. Secondly, it is widely supposed that the non-Catholic churches have come, or are rapidly coming, to close cooperation...
...Leaders of all important Christian bodies except one were present (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.). The Roman Catholic, itself a church universal, was not represented. † Recently appointed to govern the American Episcopal churches in Europe...