Word: christs
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Primitive, provincial and expressionist by choice, Hjorth distorts form to achieve more powerful effects, offends many a conservative Swede. His mural for Stockholm's Caroline Hospital showing a coarse peasant Christ surrounded by nude suppliants so shocked the hospital authorities it was consigned to the basement, and only later rescued by the city's Museum of Modern...
Many Asian delegates looked to Japan for leadership. Said the Philippines' Bishop Proculo A. Rodriguez (United Church of Christ): "Why send potential leaders to the West for training when it can be done more quickly and cheaply in Japan...
...hill called Cumorah, situated near Palmyra, N.Y. (22 miles southeast of Rochester), is a holy place to the 1,500,000 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For three nights last week, the faithful and the curious gathered there in record numbers-some 135,000 in all-for the 17th Hill Cumorah Pageant, which depicts in dramatic terms the legendary origins of the Mormon faith...
Climactic Scene. Most familiar scene to non-Mormons was Christ's crucifixion -after which, according to the Mormons, he came to America and organized his true Christian church among the Nephites (Scene XIII), who flourished for centuries before falling into wicked ways themselves and being destroyed in battle by the Lamanites. Mormon was a Nephite prophet who set down this history and God's will for the future upon golden tablets and entrusted them to his son Moroni, who buried them in the Hill Cumorah...
Professional Polish. The 128 years since Founder Smith formally organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have witnessed a triumphant march of Mormonism through bloody persecutions (Smith himself was killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.) to a present pinnacle of prosperity and respectable good will. Today the Mormons, with headquarters in Salt Lake City, own canneries, insurance companies, banks, number among their ruling Twelve Apostles a U.S. Cabinet officer (Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson). Members in good standing donate a tenth of their incomes to the church. Five thousand missionaries from...