Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glasgow's crime statistics make it seem like a haven of peace, but in its twisted cobblestone alleys and dingy, Dickensian slums lurk hundreds of drunks, thugs and pickpockets. London's Sunday Pictorial warned Graham what to expect: "These thugs prefer the knife and the knuckleduster to Christ and crusaders...
...relay near by. "I don't want anyone talking or moving for the next half hour," Billy began. Then, with voice vibrating and eyes raised toward heaven, he besought them to have faith and make their peace with God. He ended with the command: "Come to Christ." All told, 470 Scots came forward that evening to make "decisions for Christ...
...According to a survey by Living Church magazine, both houses of the Congress are dominated numerically by Methodists (105 members) and Roman Catholics (82 members). Presbyterians are third (68 members), Baptists fourth (66 members), Episcopalians (53 members), Congregational-Christians (31 members). Lutherans (21 members), Disciples of Christ (8 members), Latter-day Saints (8 members), Jews (7 members), Reformed (5 members), Friends (3 members), Unitarians (3 members). Remainder: Unspecified and Others...
...Baltimore, viewers of Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's Life Is Worth Living got a jolt when the bishop asked the rhetorical question: "Will the Communists find Christ on the Cross?" and, without any change in the picture, a soprano voice answered loud and clear: "Of course not!" Embarrassed executives of station WAAM explained that a technician had pulled a switch at the wrong moment, cutting off the audio portion of the bishop's Du Mont show and letting in a vagrant sentence from Corliss Archer...
...excommunication was not published until now, in hopes that the erring priest might mend his ways. Instead, according to Osservatore Romano, Li has recently become "leader and proclaimer among Christians of movements that have the purpose of dividing Catholics and changing the essence of the only church of Christ." In other words, Li Wei-Kwang is helping to set up the Communists' bogus "Catholic Church" in China, similar to the "independent Catholic" churches in European Iron Curtain countries. Rumored in the offing: election of a fake Chinese "Pope...