Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wedding was to be a small one, in a country church, before a congregation of rural neighbors. But not since the Grace Kelly nuptials has there been such an international fooster as last week swirled about a wedding in the Norwegian town of Sogne (pop. 4,000). While 150 newsmen and photographers trampled gardens and graves, while 5,000 curious visitors crowded close about the church in a drenching rain, tall, bespectacled Steven Rockefeller, 23, son of the Governor of New York and scion of one of the world's greatest fortunes, was joined in marriage to blonde, buxom...
...shoulder, Steven explained almost plaintively to newsmen his reasons for allowing only five reporters at the ceremony itself: "For many of you, this is merely another job. Anne-Marie and I have to live for the rest of our lives on the memory of what goes on in this church. For us it is a very private occasion and a religious one. I hope you will respect our feelings in this...
...desperate mayor of Sogne reinforced his police force (one man) with 40 others from the nearby city of Kristiansand, and the Sogne militia was alerted for the first time since the war. A battle of organists erupted briefly in the Lutheran church, with the aged local man reportedly being elbowed aside for a more accomplished player from Kristiansand. Back in the States, reporters tracked down Anne-Marie's uncle, Andrew Swenson. at whose Bronx home she stayed when she first came to the U.S. in 1956. A New York City mounted policeman. Uncle Andrew took a melancholy stance beside...
More than a quarter of the ministers doubt that necessary marks of the true church are the preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments, while less than a fifth of the laymen express similar doubts...
Where the ministers become the strict ones is in the practical application of church teaching. Most of the ministers agree that it is a sin to waste time (80%), that foreign missionaries should not merely confine themselves to "preaching the Gospel" (more than 70%), and that the U.S. should put the needs of underdeveloped lands ahead of its own desires in giving technical and economic aid (82%). In each case, the percentage of laymen who went along was much smaller. Widest disparity: wasting time, an indulgence that only about half of the laymen consider sinful...