Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME representative I have for five years stressed your fairness, omniscience. Your article on dirty Buchmanites (May 28) is utterly unfair, strangely ignorant; your quotation from a "Princeton song" a gratuitous insult. Members of the First Century Christian Fellowship (the movement to which you no doubt refer) are not correctly called Buchmanites; there is no mystery about the Morning Watch-it consists of prayer, Bible reading, religious meditation; there is specifically Biblical authority for the stress laid on "confession" (James 5:16). Wholehearted surrender to the Will of God is a fundamental principle of this group...
...Christian Character." Louis Behr ofi Rockford, Ill., Jewish student at the University of Wisconsin, was awarded the Kenneth Sterling Day Trophy for "Christian character, distinguished service and scholarship...
...played for three years on his college basketball team; also he has served its Jewish society, the B'nai B'rith, Hillel Foundation. Upon winning his prize, he was the recipient of a telegram from the New York World, asking him to give his "conception of a Christian gentleman's code of conduct." This request arrived "just as I [Behr] was bidding my fraternity brothers of Phi Sigma Delta farewell at our senior banquet," a circumstance which may have explained some of the garrulity with which the youth fulfilled it. Extracts: "If I have the personal qualities...
...Whereas, the Christian and Reformed Churches are campaigning to end prizefighting in California, and it is published that such an exhibition, led by a noted pugilist, is to be staged for the benefit of a Protestant church; resolved, that we disclaim any sympathy with such a benefit and protest the use of such demoralizing methods in the name of the Church of Christ...
...already entered, including his own giant all-metal, trimotored Spirit of Canton. The League was then addressed by Philosopher-Lecturer Dr. Huang ("the Chinese Count Hermann Keyserling"), now touring the U. S. "It was the great Kum Ming of the Province of Han," said he, "who, in the fourth Christian century, invented, made and flew the first airplane. . . . Its motive power was magnetic. . . . Kum Ming, who was a poet and a wise ruler, destroyed his airplane just before his death for the protection of mankind. . . . He had bombed and destroyed many of his enemies...