Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past two centuries has received at last a dusty answer, its late linking with Romanistic and esthetic mysticism should shed no very tasteful fruit. Since the student rarely feels the great sorrows and trials of the bitter depths vaguely referred to as life, the support of the church can seldom rise above the low level of sustaining organ recitals before examinations. And since the crown of youth is its searching self-reliance in the matters of conduct and God, any relinquishment of that independence in emotional self-indulgence because of keen sentience of beauty, is genuine loss...
...original intent of the Sunday morning closure was doubtless in behalf of religious services; but it is hardly probable that the church attendance of students is much increased by this act. As for the difficulties arising on other days of the week, one might remark that though track, lacrosse, and baseball each has its thousands, tennis has its ten thousands; and that H. A. A. books are not universal. Freshman physical training occupies many of the Soldiers Field courts three days a week throughout May, and the already limited facilities are further diminished. The result is a choice between more...
Methodist support of church unity, which was so forcibly demonstrated last week (TIME, May 21), was again emphasized when the bishops gave their approval to moves for merging the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Korea. With pleasure, they received messages from Congregationalist State Conventions which endorsed the proposed union of Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist Churches. They learned, too, that in New York State the Congregationalists and the Disciples of Christ were planning a local merger which they hope later to make national...
...Chicago, dark faces with wide lips and narrow eyes were in evidence. The faces belonged to African Methodist Episcopalians. For a time, these solemn people emulated their white brethren in Kansas City; with commendable dignity as well as wisdom they voted to "amalgamate" with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, but decided to refer the matter to the people of their congregations for "ratification...
While Nicholas Frederick Brady's colleagues serenely created a new billion dollar institution, he serenely basked in the May proximity of an older and a richer one, the Church of Rome. The Bradys have always been observant Catholics and, with the accumulation of wealth, helpful ones...