Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christendom is to be reborn the Church must be supernational. What formal world-wide organization it may require I cannot forecast, but certain it is that the Christendom which once was has gone, for worse or for better. A new Christendom can only be supplied by an earth-wide fellowship exemplifying the unity of mankind in Christ and linking all the people of the world...
...heard him were not depressed, for the day before they had taken part in the most important Scottish ecclesiastical event in 87 years, had shown their willingness to work toward the "earth-wide fellowship" mentioned by Dr. Coffin. The event had been the reunion of the long separated Established Church (Auld Kirk) and the United Free Church, both of which originated in the stern predestinationism brought to Scotland by John Knox from Geneva's John Calvin...
...first assembly of the reunited Church of Scotland was held in a garage containing some 12,000 chairs. While rain beat upon the roof the position of moderator of the reunited church was voted to Rev. John White, minister of the Barony of Glasgow...
Before leaving the assembly to march back to the Cathedral under a rainbow-spanned sky. the reunited church listened respectfully to His Grace the Duke of York, Lord High Commissioner of the new church who gave "full assurance of His Majesty's interest in and love for the Church of Scotland . . . and of his determination to uphold the cause of Presbyterian government in Scotland...
Still uncompleted is the $4,000,000 Rockefeller-given Riverside Church of Manhattan. Last week Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who will be its pastor, gathered his flock into Temple Beth-El and there preached. Beth-El members now attend the new Emanu-El, and are therefore glad to accommodate the Christians by loaning them the vacated synagog...