Word: churchful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Highness Maharaja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur left Christ Church College, Oxford, to assume the throne of Indore, having reached his majority. His father abdicated in 1926. He will be enthroned early next month, will control 9,519 square miles...
Last week the name of Preacher Fosdick's church ceased to be a misnomer. At a meeting of the congregation in the completed portion of the new $4,000,000 edifice which most-famed-member-of-the-congregation John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is building at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street (TIME, Dec. 31). it was announced that the Riverside Church was now its legal title. Though the alteration of title was agreed upon a year ago, no legal action could be taken until a New York State law preventing a religious corporation from changing its name was amended...
Last year the Christian Herald Association, publishers of the Christian Herald, instituted an annual award for "distinguished religious service." The prize: A trip to the Holy Land. First distinguished religious server was Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South (TIME...
Last week, at dinner in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, the Christian Herald award was given to a layman: Fred B. Smith, moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, chairman of the U. S. section of the World Alliance for International Friendship, ardent Prohibitionist. Said the Association: "You have been chosen because the Christian Church for more than 40 years has had in you a demonstration of what can be wrought by a layman who is wholly given to the purposes of Christ." Moderator Smith, Mrs. Smith (his second) will sail for Palestine Feb. 16 on S. S. Calgarie...
...Zvezvan, Jugoslavia, a wedding party was proceeding to the church when a white-hot meteor 16 inches in diameter hurtled into a carriage in front of the bride's, killed one guest, injured another. The bride fainted, came to, went on with the ceremony...