Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tennessee House of Representatives, after an acute discussion, tabled and refused to act on a bill to prohibit the employment of public school teachers who "do not believe in God and the Deity of His Son, Jesus Christ...
Another performance of the dramatized Gospel story of "The Presentation of Christ in the Temple" will be given this evening in St. John's Memorial Chapel of the Episcopal Theological School at 8. o'clock. The drama is in the manner of the mediaeval "Mystery" plays given originally at great religious festivals for the amusement and information of the ignorant masses who knew little of church history. Members of the Workshop are taking part in the production...
...drama is written after the manner of Mediaeval Liturgical Plays, embedded in a symbolic service of lights, and accompanied by ancient Plain Song melodies. The Gospel story of "The Presentation of Christ in the Temple" has been dramatized and is presented immediately after the reading of the lesson. This form of Drama was most popular in the Mediaeval period and was later revived by St. Philip Neri during the 16th century in Rome. Its great function was to impress upon the unlettered people of the day the biblical and historical background of the feasts and festivals of the Church Year...
...striking antithesis former Justice Clark of the Supreme Court said: "We must choose now between Christ and Mars." In his lecture at Brown he pictured all too vividly the inevitable horrors of a future war; and he discussed the problem from a unique standpoint. His thesis in brief is that Christianity will never survive the next war; as if more reasons were needed to prove that such a conflict must be avoided at all cost...
...Christ Scientist, New Y,ork City, Mrs. Stetson devoted her tireless efforts. . . . But to return to Mother Goose , . .. let me quote the following from Mrs. Stetson's book...