Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experimental United Church was organized in Manila in 1924. During World War II, the occupying Japanese forced all Protestant bodies to join it for convenience in dealing with them. Though this shotgun partnership dissolved after V-J day, the United Church of Christ in the Philippines was formed again on a more solid footing in 1948, is now the largest purely Protestant body in the country. Its constituents: Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Church of Christ, Evangelical United Brethren and Philippine Methodists - 100,000-odd adults in 790-odd congregations...
Faith-Healer Susie Jessel raised her arms toward a picture of Christ on the wall and said: "I dedicate my hands to the Lord . . . The Lord give me the gift, and He did not give it in vain. If He chooses at times to make it so that they don't heal, we must remember that we cannot be a winner all the time...
According to the federation's president, the Rev. Vernon R. Cummins, pastor of the First Spiritual Christian Church of San Antonio, Texas, most spiritualists believe in six basic principles: 1) A Supreme Being, 2) the "soul of man as the Son of God," 3) Jesus Christ as the "greatest demonstrator" of spiritualism (but not the only begotten Son of God), 4) "communication between the seen and unseen worlds," 5) "salvation by character development-not by the Blood of the Lamb," 6) "eternal progression''-i.e., no death. Beyond these tenets, spiritualist speculation ranges untrammeled. Chief current controversy...
...more religion. "One of the vulnerable points of spiritualism," cried the Rev. Helen Graham of West Bloomfield, N.Y., thumping a Bible, "is that it doesn't use this book enough." The Rev. Clarence Haas of Warren, O. also looked to the Good Book, "I know Jesus Christ was a spiritualist," he told the group, "even...