Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 25,000 delegates and visitors gathered in Birmingham for the 23rd quadrennial conference of the Southern church. With unification the first item on the agenda, many a delegate-including Senator Carter Glass-sounded off on the Negro issue. But they could not make the tar baby stick. The merger was adopted...
Dean Sperry announced yesterday a new plan of Memorial Church reorganization, which will bind the congregation closer to the Church in spirit and in action...
...time that you (members of the congregation) are compelled, under existing conditions to be much too silent and passive in your relations to the conduct of our affairs. There ought to be some means for the expression of your opinion as to the whole manner and content of our church life...
...remedy this situation he proposes "The Memorial Church Congregation," an organization which would hold itself ready to meet "once or twice a year, and which would elect representatives who could meet with me more often to share in the formulation of policies...
...still feels that "after consulting with college chaplains in charge of such churches elsewhere, and after reviewing our own situation here, I am persuaded we shall be better advised to remain a congregation rather than to attempt to become formally a church...