Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hiding an English pilot, the Nazis had killed 124 men, women & children, then razed half of the dwellings. The Hales decided to "adopt" the village, spent more than $25,000 providing their 500-odd wards with shoes, soap, tractors, china, blankets, furniture, altar carpets and scarves for the church and 40 yards of black funeral cloth...
...documents which led to the unearthing of Cuauhtemoc's bones were indeed 400 years old, and that the ink, writing and signature on them appeared genuine. Leading archaeologists agreed. Crowds of tourists began to make the five-hour trip over rock-strewn roads from Taxco to the Ixcateopan church, where they goggled at a few shoe boxes full of bone fragments and the copper disc found under the altar bearing the inscription: "Señor y Rey, Coatemo...
...steady rain was falling when Castro awoke in Panajachel the next morning, and he decided to stay on another day. Twenty-four hours later there was still no letup, and streams on either side of Panajachel were swollen. Castro went to church to pray that the rains might stop. All that night torrents fell, and Castro trembled with fear that his cornpatch might be washed into the lake or buried by landslides from the mountains. Next morning he joined the village elders as they dressed an image of San Francisco in a raincoat and paraded it down the street while...
...assault, and they are right. But the point is irrelevant. In this enterprise heaven's cooperation is assured, providing we make its cooperation pos sible. Christ wills the conversion of Amer ica. Of that we can be sure. But do we desire it above everything else? Are the churches prepared to risk it? When Christ wins America every local church will be transformed, every community changed, every denomination identified with the larger life of the ecumenical church. Did those who launched this movement realize that it might have such effects? Whether they did or not, there is no turning...
...Which of these results it has will de pend upon what is going on now in the minds of church members and ministers. If they look upon this as another pious chore, another headquarters' brainstorm that has to be endured until it has blown over, then the second half of the 20th Century will see the decline of Protestantism in America. But if church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break...