Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gloomily, many Italian moderates concluded that the photograph for which Giovanni Gronchi was waiting was a jolly group shot of the Christian Democrats and Nenni Socialists arm in arm, singing Carry Us Back to Neo-Atlantism...
...Onward, Christian Soldiers, Marching as to war, -With the cross of Jesus Left behind the door...
...result: Onward, Christian Soldiers, which was to become one of the great hymns of all time (George Bernard Shaw even suggested that the early Christians anticipated it on their way to face the lions). The curate who wrote the famous words* in such a hurry was the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, an extraordinary squarson-one of the last of that strange amalgam of squire and parson bred by the 19th century Church of England. Now published in England is Baring-Gould's biography, Onward Christian Soldiers, by Anglican Clergyman William Purcell (no kin to 17th century Composer Henry Purcell...
When the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould died, the hymn they sang over his grave was one he wrote for children that may well outlast his Christian Soldiers...
...lodge sleeps 32 people and is used 46 times a year for retreats from Friday evening through Sunday noon which emphasize "reflection periods" and Bible study. "Mar Casa" is a white-shingled, two-story building on Balboa Island, built for the Pasadena Presbyterian Church in World War I for Christian education work, but now used for retreats...