Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparatively poor, but with extraordinary social prestige and in an extraordinarily strategic political position. High-church Episcopalians pull toward Rome; low-church Episcopalians pull toward the other Protestant sects. An Episcopalian episode of last week showed clearly the sort of obstacle confronting the union of all brethren in Christ...
Manning's Command. A non-sectarian Protestant organization calling itself the Christian Unity League (president, Baltimore's Dr. Peter Ainslie, Disciple of Christ) planned a conference in Manhattan for last week. Dr. Karl Reiland, Liberal Episcopal preacher, a member of the league, invited the conference to meet at his church, St. George's. A feature of the three-day meeting was to be a communion service conducted by the Presbyterian Liberal Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. When newspapers announced the service, those who knew Bishop William Thomas Manning...
...Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ...
Captain B. B. Wygant, U. S. N., Professor of Naval Science and Tactics at Harvard, and the Rev. Prescott Evarts, Rector of Christ Church, Protestant Episcopal, Cambridge, replied yesterday to the remark made recently by the Rt. Rev. Paul Jones, now acting Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio, that the display of American flags in public school rooms was "a dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children...
...eighth novel, Robert Nathan makes gentle fun of the discrepancy between Christian faith and Christian observation. His hero Levy, yearning after the Christ, changes his name to Lewis. Crossing the River Jordan he arrives, not in the land of milk and honey, but in a welter of May parties, prejudices, Mother's days, fishings, bathings-a whole satirically tinted landscape of Gentile normalities. Lonely, without angels, relatives or the Christ, Lewis quits this stupid paradise, flings himself into the river, returns to the Bread of Life. Author Nathan's mysticism is mischievous, grace ful-perhaps too much...