Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heresy trials, 7) collapse of negotiations for the proposed merger between northern and southern Presbyterians, 8) indecision in some church leadership following the Supreme Court ruling on racial segregation, 9) the debate as to whether there is a "great religious renaissance" in the U.S., 10) the visits of U.S. churchmen to Russia...
...Church attendance zoomed beyond the rosiest hopes of churchmen. Said one minister frankly: "Some of the laggards in my congregation awake on Sunday morning, grope blindly for the Sunday paper and, unable to find it, decide that the only other profitable Sunday morning activity is a visit to church...
...churchmen, less sensitive about secularism, took a dim view of Vicar Lloyd's sermon. The Church of England Newspaper called it "baby talk." If the disestablishmentarians had their way, it warned, the position of evangelicals and liberals in the church would soon be "intolerable." Last week the Roman Catholic Herald surprised many a reader by siding with the low churchmen: "The tradition of Establishment has proved to be a powerful spiritual and moral factor in the country . . . Bound up with the Christian throne, the Church of England has . . . been a growing rather than a declining Christian influence . . . We find...
...eloquent faces of the two young people placed on the rack by the churchmen of England make one wonder if we are not still living in the Dark Ages...
Protestants have good reason to get upset. They are faced with a steady and alarming rise in Roman Catholic membership and power in the U.S. Attacking Catholicism is hardly a solution. Instead, Protestant churchmen might try preaching the Holy Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If this were done, Protestantism would again have appeal as true Christianity, and Roman error would naturally be unable to cope with the light of Truth...