Word: christs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year Ann added to a spiritual crisis in Joe's life. Like most Jackson Countians, the adults in Joe's family have belonged to the Church of Christ* since Civil War days. Now it was time for Joe to make his decision about entering the church, and it was a decision he faced with dreadful seriousness. Ann, a devout church member, had no intention of marrying an unconverted man. She talked with him for hours about the Bible, pleaded with him to accept the faith. Joe lashed around in his Bible late into the nights, reading time...
...Members of the Church of Christ are also known as Campbellites, after Thomas Campbell and his son Alexander. In 1809, in Washington, Pa., they rejected Calvinism, formed an association for "the Restoration of the Ancient Order of Things." The Campbellites believe that laymen have the right and duty to preach. Their motto: "Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent." About 80% of Church of Christ membership (1,500,000) is in rural areas...
...Named for the Christ child because it arrives about Christmas...
...General Board of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. approved an exchange visit of church leaders between Russia and the U.S. in the indefinite future. The proposal, said Council President Dr. Eugene Carson Blake of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern), came originally from the Russians. After communicating with Patriarch Alexei of Moscow and the U.S. State Department, Dr. Blake said, he expects a Russian delegation of Baptists, Lutherans and other Protestants, as well as representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church...
Married. Barbara Benson, 21, eldest daughter of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson; and Dr. Robert Harris Walker, 33, Canadian surgeon; in a Mormon ceremony performed by the Secretary, a member of the Council of Twelve of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints; in the Salt Lake City Temple...