Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolved that we record our confidence in the time-honored constitution of the Church Temperance Society, namely, voluntary temperance by moral education...
Contemporaneous with General Pershing's utterances was the announcement of plans for another National Church in Washington, this one not to be a U. S. Westminster Abbey or even a cathedral. Instead, it will be the largest U. S. cruciform church; it will be called the National Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Charles Wood, D.D., president of its incorporators, revealed that a site had already been chosen, that the church would be 290 feet long and 150 feet wide, that its steeple or tower would rise 222 feet above the ground...
Between the extremes of evangelical Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church there slants an almost unbroken line: the emphasis placed upon alcoholic temperance by the denominations along this line increases in ratio to their distance from the Roman Catholic Church which does not favor Prohibition...
...Protestant Episcopal Church lies between Rome and the strongly evangelical, pro-prohibition denominations. Intelligent observers were not, therefore, greatly surprised when they inspected the results of a questionnaire poll conducted by the Church Temperance Society of the Episcopal Church. The questionnaire had been sent to 5,301 ministers; 2,980 of them had replied. The results were tabulated as follows...
...triennial general convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church resolved to delete, from the Protestant Episcopal prayer manual, that section known as "the Thirty-nine articles," which among other things, defines some of the differences between Protestant and Roman Catholic creeds and practices. This resolution, to be effected, must be ratified at the next general convention, to be held at Washington, in October. Last week 105 more or less consequential lay members of the Protestant Episcopal Church from 45 of the 72 U. S. dioceses, signed a memorial to the House of Bishops petitioning that the Thirty-nine articles be retained...