Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jewel Box Like a Pimple. The preacher who will press the button happily takes time out to escort visitors around his still-unfinished "Landmark for Christ''-into the cylindrical, louvered educational building with its 50 schoolrooms (each with its own washroom), its movie and sound equipment, its $50,000 kitchen ("The women had their way here"), its 500-capacity dining room looking out over the parking lots (675 cars when completed) and outdoor theater (where Miss Oklahoma was picked last month). Pastor Alexander proudly shows off the deeply carpeted little theater-in-the-round, now used by dramatic...
...hadn't been in a church like the Disciples of Christ, in which each congregation is autonomous. I wouldn't have lasted a year." he admits...
...minutes later, the man was gone. In the bushes, the cop found the body of Margaret Gallagher, a 50-year-old beauty-parlor operator. Her skull was crushed, her body half-stripped. Nearby lay her book, Ben-Hur. In it was a religious picture with an image of Christ on one side; on the other was printed "A Prayer for a Happy Death...
...York City will be target for one of the biggest evangelistic enterprises of modern times. "In a sense, it has already started," said Billy Graham to a group of friends last week. "Church groups all over the world have begun praying for New York to turn to Christ. We're going to bring ministers from abroad, too, men we've met in our travels, to help with the crusade. We've announced it will last seven weeks-from May 15 to June 30-but as a matter of fact, we have an option on Madison Square Garden...
...that body. God bless everyone in the household, including old grandma or granddad with that old rheumatism." Inducements offered by others: a plastic cross that glows in the dark ("the glow of God's presence") and, for a certain sum, of course, "a genuine autographed picture of Jesus Christ...