Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover made public no answer to a wistful "open letter" on his religion, published by Editor Charles Clayton Morrison in the Christian Century. Said the letter, in part: "In choosing you, the people of the United States rejected the candidacy of a Catholic. . . . Some day ... the mind of Christ will become the mind of the State...
...into the collection plate each and every Sunday of last year may warm his piety at the comforting thought that he was twice as generous as the average churchgoer. Authority for the fact that 5? is the average contribution, is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, which published figures last week. The most generous State: New Jersey, 12.2? per churchgoer per Sunday. Virginia, the Carolinas, Washington and eleven other States averaged less than...
...humane custom to break the legs of the crucified to speed Death. But Christ died on the cross. Nevertheless, nervously, impulsively, a Roman soldier pierced the body with his spear. Joseph the Arimathaean asked for the body and buried it in a tomb he had intended for himself, where no man had ever lain...
...recognition can add to the divine commission of the Papacy. The independent sovereignty which is rightfully hers and which has finally been restored to the Church will but evidence to the world the supernatural and supernational mission with which the Visible Head of the Church has been commissioned since Christ spoke to Peter...
Died. Rev. Geoffrey Anketell ("Wood-bine Willie") Studdert-Kennedy, 46, of London, famed & beloved Wartime chaplain, champion of workingmen, author (Food for the Fed-Up, The Warrior, The Woman and the Christ), rector of St. Edmund's, London; of influenza; in Liverpool. "Woodbine Willie" personally gave away 8,750,000 Woodbine cigarets to soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption...