Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Studying law at the University of Wisconsin, he got a job as janitor at the Christ Presbyterian Church in Madison. Its pastor was the Rev. George E. Hunt, a smoking and drinking, social-gospel liberal who was something new in young Leslie Bechtel's experience. Hunt took a liking to the earnest young janitor, and set out to prove that he could do more for humanity as a minister than as a lawyer. "One day he got me to agree to a debate," Bechtel remembers. "The topic was to be 'Where can you get more out of life...
...chiefly the Methodists were looking ahead, not back. In sparkling, silvery letters high above the stage blazed a slogan after Founder Wesley's own heart: "Win 250,000 for Christ." This is the specific goal of Methodism's worldwide evangelistic campaign for 1953. Its distant aim is much higher. Said the campaign's codirector, Dr. Harry Denman of Nashville: "The purpose of our evangelistic mission is to reveal God to every person in the world...
...believe in God the Father Almighty . . . And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord . . . I believe in the Holy Ghost...
...Ages, the very faith of Europe came to life in the cathedrals' stained-glass windows. The artists who made them were revered, but most of their names are forgotten. The art reached its highest level in France, and France's earliest known fragment is a "Head of Christ" (opposite) made in the mid-11th century for a church at Wissembourg in Alsace. The turquoise and ruby glow of its colors, the economy of its drawing, and the sorrowing intensity of its expression make the little medallion (reproduced at close to full size) a priceless masterpiece...
With stained glass, as with most other art forms, the purest blooms were among the first to appear. The "Head of Christ," for example, outshines the more recent and more sophisticated works on the following page. From the awkward but highly animated and magnificently colored "Saint Martin" through the comparatively slick, elaborate "Pierre de Mortain" to the mannered "Sibyl," the panels show a steady change from simple, abstract design to naturalistic representation...