Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combination of opposing armies. As testimony to his nation's puissance, Führer Hitler could look back over the year and remember that besides receiving countless large-bore statesmen (Mr. Chamberlain three times, for instance), he paid his personal respects to three kings (Sweden's Gustaf, Denmark's Christian, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele) and was visited by two (Bulgaria's Boris, Rumania's Carol?not counting Hungary's Regent, Horthy...
...torn China sent 60 delegates to Madras. Far from being dismayed at the physical damage done to mission buildings during the war, Chinese Christians rejoice in the new respect which Chinese soldiers and people have come to feel toward Christian missionaries. A decade ago, missionaries bore the brunt of China's hatred of foreigners, but are now welcomed wherever there are Chinese masses in need...
Many a missionary last week, and many a Christian with the full meaning of the Nativity in his heart, understood the Christmas message which Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife sent their Christian friends in the U. S. Wrote these pre-eminent products of Christian missions: "There lies upon us and, we presume, upon you also, a great weight of care which religion alone can teach us to bear worthily. . . . Our religion teaches us that sin is immeasurably a greater evil than suffering. . . . Our people ... are being purified and uplifted by their present trials. . . . War is brutal...
...Christian thinking much realistic pessimism had made itself felt. Christian Century, a thoughtful and influential organ of Protestantism, had lately declared that the churches today are in a "time of waiting," a time in which "the church does not know how to act; yet has not learned to wait"; a time in which the social action which was once the Church's great concern had been stalled. To the Catholic view, the Church was, as always, the Church militant-though, to many of its rank & file, the Church seemed to be fighting, on some fronts, a rearguard action...
...most calculations, Christ was born in 5 B. C. There is no evidence that the date was December 25. As Christmas evolved in early Christian times, it was strongly influenced by the more ancient Roman winter feast of Saturnalia...