Word: churched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...procession filed through the Basilica, Pius XII was halted thrice. Before him a master of ceremonies thrice lit wisps of flax, chanting: "Sancte Pater, sic transit gloria mundi." Thus was the Visible Head of the Holy Church reminded that, even for him, the world's glories pass...
...proclaim to a world which is once again madly preparing for war that the gospel of God as revealed in Jesus Christ . . . leaves us with no other choice but to refuse to sanction or participate in war. . . . We affirm our faith that the mission of the church today is to witness with singleness of heart, at whatever cost, to the power of good to overcome evil, of love to conquer hatred, of the Cross to shatter the sword...
...selling City Hall, Brooklyn Bridge, Central Park to innocent strangers. Last September in Harlem, an innocent and querulous Negro Methodist named Rev. Davis Frazer, preaching in a shop for which his congregation was growing too large, let it be known that he was in the market for a church. Two strangers approached him, told him they were agents for a bank which had a fine, large church for sale, price $96,000, on the installment plan. Parson Frazer paid $22.50 down, was told that it would be a few weeks before the congregation using the church would move...
...last week, Parson Frazer had paid $850 for his church. Impatient to take possession, he prodded the agents. Finally they gave him two keys, and wished him well. Eagerly he went to the church, found that the keys did not fit, was shocked to learn that the Seventh Day Adventist congregation within did not know that their church had been sold. Parson Frazer took to his bed with chagrin...
...Germany last week, Rev. Martin Niemöller began his second year in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he is confined for refusing to cut his faith to Nazi patterns. In the U. S., The Federal Council of Churches asked its constituents to devote attention to Pastor Niemöller's anniversary. In the Union Church of Bay Ridge (Brooklyn), Presbyterian Rev. John Paul Jones acceded. As he mounted his pulpit, he was seized and dragged away by two parishioners in brown shirts. Then a painted prison set labeled "Sachsenhausen" was stood before the pulpit. Mr. Jones appeared behind...