Word: christs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Rev. Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, in his annual report as rector of Manhattan's rich old Trinity Parish, bluntly declared: "There is no part of the Church of Christ that has not failed lamentably in its witness and ministry in these recent years-the impotence of the Church is the worst failure." Remedy offered by this lean, ascetic-looking churchman: "I seriously believe the Christian Church would once again bring salvation to the world, and begin to save its own soul, if it had the wisdom and courage to declare a moratorium on preaching for a period...
Rosenberg: "The general ideas of the Roman and of the Protestant churches are negative Christianity and do not, therefore, accord with our soul." Goebbels: "Positive Christianity is humanitarian service . . . Christ himself would discover more of His teaching in what we [lay Nazis] are doing than in [the Church's] theological hair-splitting." Göring (in a speech abusing the Church): "We [Nazis] have informed the Church that we stand on the basis of positive Christianity." Thus increasingly the Nazi Party imposes on Germans the mystic idea that Christians should turn away from their churches and to the Party...
...throughout the land like to think of themselves as potent opinion-makers in any election year. Although the 1936 Presidential campaign officially got under way only last week, U. S. men of God were already assuming their roles in it. Editorialized The Christian Evangelist, organ of the Disciples of Christ: "We do not recall any other recent Presidential contest in which the Ins and the Outs tried so vigorously to capture for their respective parties the sanctions and blessings of organized religion...
...Testament Herod figures as the King of Judea who, when he heard reports of the birth of Christ, ordered all babes in Bethlehem under two years of age put to death. "As though the list of his numerous crimes were not yet long enough," comments Author Minkin, ". . . his name was taken for what the world considers one of the blackest and most abnormal outrages." Probably Herod died at Jericho, four years before the birth of Christ, at the age of 70, after a reign of 35 years. Last week Dr. Minkin offered readers an old-fashioned biographical essay, filled with...
While at least one priest joined in the picture-taking, the 21 postulants, brides-to-be of Christ, entered the chapel wearing white gowns, white-blossomed veils and carrying candles. In the sanctuary one by one they knelt, begging Bishop Thomas J. Walsh of Newark to admit them to the religious community. From each dark head full-fledged nuns removed the white veil. The Bishop substituted the shiny black sunbonnet-like headdress of the Maestre Pie. Now a novice, each girl walked back from the sanctuary in the black habit which she expects to wear for the rest...