Word: elders
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...wife shares with the husband, though she cannot perform priestly rites-entered the small Sealing Room. There was neither music nor flowers. Governor Romney and Scott's uncle acted as witnesses, their duty being to ensure that no mistakes be made in the ritual. Officiating was Mormon Elder Hugh B. Brown, one of the church's Twelve Apostles, who began with a warm ten-minute homily to the couple. "Hang the marriage license on the wall," he advised Ronna, "and point it out to Scott occasionally...
Often, murdering the village elder or headman deprives the peasants...
Died. Clarence Belden Randall, 76, elder statesman of the steel industry, who was president (1949-53) and board chairman (1953-56) of Chicago's Inland Steel Co., No. 7 U.S. producer, but was better known as a forwardthinking internationalist, championing the Marshall Plan as its first steel ad viser and in 1953 heading Eisenhower's Foreign Economic Policy Commission which convinced Congress to take a few halting steps to lower U.S. trade barriers; of a heart attack; in Ishpeming, Mich...
...subscription form enquires, "Will you perform the duties of ruling elder (or deacon) in obedience to Jesus Christ, under the authority of the Scriptures, and under the continuing instruction and guidance of the confessions of this Church?" The differences between the old and new forms of the question make clear how the church expects its members hence forth to do their theology. Jesus Christ is to be obeyed; the Scriptures are "the unique and authoritative witness to Jesus Christ in the Church catholic"; and the nine confessions are for "continuing instruction and guidance." The elders who enquired about possible jeopardy...
There have been signs that the church, or parts of it, mean what they say. Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense, is a Presbyterian elder. Churchmen have gone to him privately and appeared against him publicly to the nation's policy of escalation. Presbyterians have been in Buffalo, Rochester, Louisville, Chicago, Cleveland, Watts, Delano, Port Chicago, Mississippi...