Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kingdom of Christ. Last December, Pope Pius XI instituted by encyclical letter to Catholics the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ as King to be celebrated the last Sunday in October. Many leaders of creeds other than Catholic applauded the idea. Then the discussion waned until last week, when the National Lutheran Council (representing 2,500,000 U.S. Lutherans in America and meeting in Chicago) unhooded a hawking, soaring criticism...
...have read with great interest the encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI, given out on Dec. 11, 1925, in which, 'with Apostolic authority,' he instituted the Feast of our Lord Jesus Christ as King. This feast is to be celebrated 'every year and in all the world on the last Sunday of the month of October; that is. the one just preceding the celebration of all the saints...
...commend to the consideration of all Protestants the question whether they will not more certainly honor Christ as their Savior and King by faithfully adhering to the truth of the Gospel and conforming their lives thereto than by joining in the celebration of a mighty festival marked by 'magnificent processions' and outward 'ceremonies'?" By unanimous vote the Council decided to appeal to all other Protestant bodies to abstain from taking part in the new Feast...
...PLUMED SERPENT?D. H. Lawrence?Knopf ($3). Here lies Mexico, a sullen nation of black obsidian, brooding beneath a cruel sun. Christ hangs dead upon his cross and the name of Mary is a sterile myth in dusty shrines. By night, among the peons, the old gods stir, the Aztec gods. Quetzalcoatl, the bird-snake, is come again from "the cave which is called the Dark Eye, behind the sun," where the waters rise and the winds are borne on the waters of the afterlife. Through hia priests he brings a new manhood and womanhood, to be entered by night...
...oppressed nations abroad-finance and Christian idealism?these were his two topics. In the battle of Midlothian, he temporarily buried Disraeli's glory under an unprecedented Liberal victory. "Nothing more than trouble and trial await me," said the Queen. He came back to power?not the old Gladstone of Christ Church, Oxford, but the new Gladstone; who, little as he could have dreamed it, was the forerunner of the pre-War Lloyd George, Liberal demagog...