Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College, was instituted in 1818. It is the home college of the Restoration Movement in Christianity, which movement was led by Alexander Campbell, founder and first President of the College. This great movement has culminated in the establishment of thousands of Protestant churches under the name of Churches of Christ or Chris tian Churches...
...Episcopal Church decided by a vote of 50-50 that it would continue to be the only important Protestant body unattached to the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. (A two-thirds vote was required to authorize uniting with the Federal Council.) This defeat of the famed Bishop Brent was a victory for the Anglo-Catholic party, which prides itself on the ecclesiastical tradition of the Episcopal Church in contrast with the ecclesiastically doubtful parentage of the Puritan and other Reformation-born sects. The argument publicly put forth is that union with the "sects" would widen the breach...
...That we may be prepared, and that our children may be prepared, against a cataclysm which, if it ever comes, will overshadow what we went through in the World War, we must have unity of the Christion people. We cannot, in all loyalty to the heart and mind of Christ, reject this opportunity for unity. We will either have that unity or we will have the unity which shall come if we wait until we are driven to get her in agony, like huddled sheep, by the fierceness of the storm...
Frank Brangwyn, the English artist whose exhibition followed that of the more popular and better advertised Zuloaga at the Vose Galleries last winter, seeks a human likeness to his conception of Christ. A short while ago the original model, an Italian ice cream vendor, died. Since then the artist has searched Europe in vain for one to take his place. This painting of the Christ was to be the great achievement, crowning all others, which was to complete Mr. Branwyn's artistic career. And now it is doomed to remain without a face. For nowhere can he find features with...
...today evince any such power. The hard straight lines of an iron age have marked its men. Only among the hills or upon the plains where the world still seems but an unnecessary preface to the heavens can the face of a man take on the spirituality of a Christ. Mr. Brangwyn may find his model there. If he cannot, he has cut deep into the flesh of modern pride...