Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blast furnaces are lurid enough to make striking symbols, and to many churchmen they have long been symbolic of evil. Few churchmen have ever been able to think of a blast furnace without considering how uncomfortable it would be to work near one and what long days the grimy, bemuscled thousands of the steel industry spend at their laborious, heated calling...
Some, however, do not think. Others think and discreetly do nothing. But out of the concern of a few churchmen for the welfare of tough-hided steelmen arose the war of Church v. Steel. Last week a long truce in that war was broken, and decisively broken, by the Church...
Anglo-Catholic though Bishop Griswold may be, his High Church proclivities he does not thrust upon his flocks. Low Churchmen were known to have voted for his election. Tall, handsome, he caters to the cope and mitre but not to the rich. If he were a Presbyterian he might be called a fine pastor; as an Episcopalian he is a poor speaker, a hard worker among the needy...
...Churchmen now tend to realize the importance of both the social and individual ideals of Christianity instead of emphasizing one at the expense of the other...
...they sat at table in Jerusalem 1,900 years ago, the apostles of Jesus Christ were mystically fired with the impulse to continue his teachings. Ohio churchmen were fired last year with an impulse to celebrate the 19th Centennial of the Pentecost, which was the founding day of the Christian church, and this they did last week in Columbus. Ohio usually has four separate annual conventions under the auspices of the Ohio Council of Churches (17 Protestant denominations) for pastors, laymen, churchwomen, youths. For the centennial Pentecostal celebration, all four conventions were lumped...