Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GEORGE B. CHRISTIAN, JR., Secretary to President Harding, was referred to as having carried considerable blocks of oil stocks at about the time the oil leases were made. He denied this emphatically...
...Charles H. Brent, rugged Bishop of Western New York, sometime of the Philippines and the U. S. Army, led the synod to approve participation of the Church in politics; roundly upbraided Senator Moses of New Hampshire for his anti-Bok-plan attitude. ¶ Mrs. F. W. Pease said that Christian women should take unmarried mothers and their children into their homes and pews, that rectors sometimes did not have time to reclaim these girls. ¶Bishop Brent said every clergyman had time to help the unmarried mother. ¶ Canon Gabriel Farrel lamented the bold manners of unchaperoneu girls. ¶ Bishop...
Pius XI has ordered silver medals to be struck. They are to be inscribed: "The Knights of Columbus with their own money, so that they may fulfill the wishes of Pope Pius XI, P. M.*, for the Christian instruction of Roman youth...
William T. Manning, Bishop of New York, powerful Conservative leader in the Episcopal Church, announced he would speak last Sunday morning in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Thousands came. As they sang Onward, Christian Soldiers, he ascended the pulpit. After the hymn the Bishop prayed for the dying statesman. After the prayer, he began to deliver in carefully enunciated syllables the sermon which, probably more than any other, will determine his place as a churchman...
Almost at once he caught the imaginations of his congregation. A desire close to the Bishop's heart is to raise the $15,000,000 needed to complete the Cathedral. "But," said he, "a thousand Cathedrals are of less importance than one foundation of the Christian faith. Better that the Cathedral should never be built than that a Bishop of this Church should fail to bear his witness for the full truth of Jesus Christ...