Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which comes in for criticism in this latest issue of TIME at Wallingford, England (twelve miles from Oxford). There was no single piece de resistance; the discussions, continuing over a period of three days, centered on the life of Christ, prayer, and the implications of the Christian way of life for the individual Christian-what willingness to carry out the will of the Lord might involve. The sex question was discussed in my hearing-just once, in a private talk which another American (male, 29 years of age) and I had about the mysterious reticence shown by the leaders...
...seemed well, but General Pao and men had scarcely left Peking ere they returned, driven back by the advancing army of a third Nationalist commander, famed Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, the notorious professed "Christian" whose treachery is a byword, and who has several times made himself master of Peking. Last week he was of course an ally and a very nominal subordinate of the Nationalist Generalissimo...
...refreshing as the Wednesday noon singing at the Colonial Club, as cheering as one of Judge's Younger Generation Notes, is the Christian Science Monitor's report of what the American workman, cum laude 1928, does with the extra minutes that have been lopped off the time he devotes to his daily bread, by such soulful manufacturers as Mr. Ford. The Saturday half-holidays, the five-day week, the six-hour day, all have their ever-increasing following, and it sad time it would be for the world if those hours of freedom from toil were spent in dissipation...
...Gary and spoke harshly of the 12-hour working day prevalent then, Bishop McConnell's name has been perhaps more familiar to laymen than that of any other Methodist. Always vitally interested in questions of public as well as churchly import, Bishop McConnell headed the active Committee on Christian Unity and Industrial Problems at the recent International Missionary Council in Jerusalem. At Kansas City, Bishop Mc Connell was assailed on almost frivolous charges of "maladministration and immorality. " In transferring him to the New York Bishopric, which is regarded as a promotion from his previous station, his peers showed...
Their chief officers chosen, the commissioners of the Assembly proceeded to perilous business. What was to be done about many recent proposals for uniting the Presbyterian Church with other de nominations? The Presbyterians refused to consider amalgamation with such sects as Christian, Universalist and Congregational Churches, because doctrinal differences seemed too extreme to eliminate at this time. To the more consequential proposal which they had received from the Methodist Episcopal Church (TIME, May 21 ), the Presbyterians gave a warmer rejoinder. They elected a committee to confer during the year with a similar Methodist committee to see what could be done...