Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office high above Chicago's North Wells Street, a picture of Jesus Christ hangs on the wall, alongside photographs of two tall businessmen: Herbert and Lewis Wells. The picture display is intended as something more than simple decoration. The two businessmen, father and son, are the proprietors of Wells Organizations Inc.-and Wells, which has raised millions of dollars, for churches since 1951, is the fastest-growing outfit of pledge promoters...
...they were in the wrong town. Crimson banners bearing the hammer & sickle and Picasso peace doves hung from street lights, and Marxist slogans were plastered on the centuries-old walls of the Church of the Annunciation. Turbaned Communist orators belabored street-corner crowds. Nazareth, the boyhood home of Jesus Christ, was electing 15 city councilmen...
...other Christians-deserted to the Communist ticket. The Communists got 38% of the vote, more than either of the two other parties, and elected six councilmen. Moslems and Christians on the council would have to work together if the followers of Marx were not to run the city of Christ...
...best ways to express our love for others," said Frank Halbeck, superintendent of the Jewish Evangelism Department of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board. "Jesus was a Jew, and we are interested as Christians to let the Jewish people know that we believe, without hesitation, in this Jewish Christ...
...other hand, this third view questions whether the whole idea of a 'future fulfillment' of history is a conception that . . . can be given any intelligible or valid meaning whatsoever. In what sense would the return of Christ in some distant tomorrow fulfill the centuries of history which have already intervened since His First Coming, not to speak of the millennia which may well pass before history ends...