Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major, founder of the "Modern Churchman" fifteen years ago and since then its editor, will treat his subject under the following heads; the Larger Modernism: English Modernism and its Immediate Predecessors: the Relation of Modernism to the Christian Church: Causes which convert the Traditionalist into the Modernist; Modernism and New Truth; Modernist; Reconstruction: Modernism and Miracles: Modernism and Jesus Christ: Modernism and the Creeds: Modernism and the Future...
...Phelps Taft II,* 28, presided at the meeting with that deft assured despatch which characterized his undergraduate activities at Yale. In him the 11,000 delegates present found an earnest layman lawyer from Cincinnati, well fitted to guide in debate the laymen who control the destinies of a great Christian society. It was decided, without hair splitting or theological wrangling, that henceforth non-church members may vote in the councils of the Y. M. C. A. Previously all voting members had to belong to an evangelical church...
They stated again the claim of High-Church Episcopalians to be "in no way numbered among those Christian bodies which are decended from the Reformation of the 16th Century." While the Episcopal Church recognizes but two sacraments, the Catholic Episcopalians insist upon seven-the seven-pointed lights in the seven-branched candlestick of Rome. Confession is obligatory. Stoups for Holy Water have recently been installed in Anglo-Catholic parishes in Manhattan. Holy communion is spoken of as "mass"; indeed, a "Solemn High Mass" was the phrase with which an official handbook described the service for which the members...
When Nicholas toppled from the most absolute of Christian thrones, the obscure private rallied some of his disbanded Cossack comrades about him, cajoled and coerced them into a little army. By the example of his extraordinary personal bravery, he spurred them on to acts of organized plunder which enabled him to pay them regularly and cement their loyalty. In February, 1921, he terrorized Persia into accepting him as her Minister of War; by October, 1923, he had become Premier and Dictator of Persia; last week the cables carried confused reports which apparently herald his metamorphosis from Dictator into Monarch...
Peking (TIME, Nov. 2). The movements of the great rival War Lords, Wu and Chang, remained shrouded in obscurity in the interior; and General Feng, so called "Christian protector of Peking," was contradictorily reported to have cast in his lot with Wu and with Chang...