Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These doubting Thomases among the wiseacre theologians - do they actually lack the faith to believe the inspired Word of God as given in the Biblical account of the virgin birth of Christ? - even in this day of artificial insemination? Or is their attitude more akin to that of Pilate, who, for fear of the people (public opinion), acquiesced in the crucifixion of Christ? To deliberately fail to affirm the virgin birth is to deny that Jesus...
...principles for which the Confederates fought did not begin with secession . . ." thundered Tom. "[They] come down to us from the heroic pages of antiquity. They may be read in the history of ... the Roman Empire and the defeat of the Roman Legion before the birth of Christ in the mountain passes of northern Europe by the Germanic people whom the Romans were never able to conquer . . . The Confederate cause is not lost and will never be lost so long as there are free and patriotic men and women...
...Schmiedeler's even flow of words, reminding them of the spiritual meanings of their marriages. "Christian marriage," he said, "is a grace-giving institution and a sacrament of the Church in the same sense that the priesthood is a sacrament . . . Marriage is a symbol of the union of Christ with his followers, and the Christian family is a replica of Christ and the Church . . . The family which loves God, which serves God, which is in eternal union with God, will become what St. John described as the ecclesiola-a church in miniature...
...Plans were announced for a new Cincinnati church building that reverses the long trend away from the business districts and into the suburbs. At a cost of more than $1,100,000, raised by parishioners without the help of any big philanthropist's contribution, 119 year-old Episcopal Christ Church will be razed and rebuilt on its present site (in an architectureal mixture of modern and Gothic), despite the presence of Cincinnati's nearby Skid Row. "This is a city parish," said Senior Warden Charles P. Taft (brother of the late Senator), "and it's going...
Thenceforward, the little priest lives like "a prisoner of the holy agony." He prays and prays. The pain in his stomach grows worse. One day he collapses, staring in terror and wonder at a vision of the face of Christ-"the face of a child, but without any lighting." A little later he succumbs to cancer of the stomach. He dies murmuring in ecstasy, "All is grace...