Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago. This was John R. Mott, 61, General Secretary of the International Y. M. C. A., man with genius for organizing religion, man to be heard with attention. He was bound for a national conference of the organization which under his velvet-gloved hand of iron has carried Protestant Christ to all heathen corners of the globe, has consolidated faith where it already existed, 52 nations in all. He does not look his age, though he should after 38 years of the most strenuous exertion of the will...
...been asked to address a Roman Catholic educational institution.* The Secretary expressed himself "delighted," forthwith canceled other engagements, went to Loyola, spoke. Said he: "It is a happy occasion . . . two great movements come together ... for discussion of common problems . .. everywhere youth is more and more reflecting the influence of Christ...
...Here we are quibbling over a miserable two or three dollars," cried Dr. Lewis C. Menger, taking up the budget, "when we spend millions every years for tobacco, autos and hops." A 10% increase of budget was voted amid cheers. Other pronouncements: "The Federated Council of Churches of Christ in America appears to go far in attempting in the name of Protestantism what it condemns in Romanism"; Japan, in spite of seeming progress, is "idolatrous, superstitious, immoral...
...journal of Longfellow, under the date of November 8. 1841 is the following entry. "This evening it has come into my mind to undertake a long and elaborate poem by the holy name of Christ, the theme of which would be the various aspects of Christendom in the Apostolic, Middle, and Modern Ages...
...translated Papini's Life of Christ. She raised two daughters by the method of her friend, Signora Montessori of Rome. Her study is on a Vermont farm...