Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trinity Parish, bluntly declared: "There is no part of the Church of Christ that has not failed lamentably in its witness and ministry in these recent years-the impotence of the Church is the worst failure." Remedy offered by this lean, ascetic-looking churchman: "I seriously believe the Christian Church would once again bring salvation to the world, and begin to save its own soul, if it had the wisdom and courage to declare a moratorium on preaching for a period of one or two years...
Thus last week did Rev. Dr. Charles Jefferson, 75, high-minded honorary minister of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle, address the 56th annual General Conference for Christian Workers at East Northfield, Mass. To his 4,000 listeners in the largest of the gatherings of ministers, students and missionaries which every summer brings to East Northfield, Dr. Jefferson's words almost seemed designated ko echo a Northfieldite who did do mighty work: Dwight Lyman Moody, doughty founder of the General Conference...
...used to object when occasionally his portrait was set up behind the altar in German churches. Now such homage to Der Führer is accepted without rebuke. It is never offered in churches still directed by dignitaries of the German Evangelical Church, who strive to act according to Christian light. In June their daring pastors addressed to Der Führer with "respectful greetings" a Manifesto of their "anxieties and fears" which was ruthlessly suppressed by German police (TIME, July...
Rosenberg: "The general ideas of the Roman and of the Protestant churches are negative Christianity and do not, therefore, accord with our soul." Goebbels: "Positive Christianity is humanitarian service . . . Christ himself would discover more of His teaching in what we [lay Nazis] are doing than in [the Church's] theological hair-splitting." Göring (in a speech abusing the Church): "We [Nazis] have informed the Church that we stand on the basis of positive Christianity." Thus increasingly the Nazi Party imposes on Germans the mystic idea that Christians should turn away from their churches and to the Party...
...Although Christian churches are officially committed to belief in Heaven as an ultimate reward for good, many a Christian considers it bad taste to speculate in detail upon life after death. Lacking evidence, a minister's conception of Heaven is not much more valid than was that of Mark Twain, who in Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven pictured it as a place where people do what they always wanted to do on earth; where, on sheer worth, a backwoods poet from Tennessee takes precedence over Shakespeare...