Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...priesthood, says the Massachusetts bishop, he has seen most revolutionary changes in the thought of mankind. This has taught him that change is an element of human life. It is not to be feared. It is to be used. "No discovery of science has taken from us our faith," but "when we realize how our conception of the universe has been enlarged ten thousand times, we have a conception of God ten thousand times greater, nobler and more spiritual than was that of our fathers." Hence, although he believes in the usefulness of creeds, Bishop Lawrence refuses to insist...
...example, although he is personally inclined to accept the traditional idea of the Virgin Birth, he says it is not essential to Episcopal faith...
...Faith-healing was debated at Lambeth Conference, 1920. The Archbishop of Canterbury appointed their Lordships the Bishops of Oxford, Liverpool, St. Albans and Southwark to investigate. Their Lordships have now reported. They say that "no sick person must look to a clergyman to do what it is a physician's or surgeon's duty to do." They add that it is the Church's duty to assist doctors to combat disease in God's name. "The physician is conscious that he is working with a mysterious partner inherent in life which we call vis medicatrix naturae...
Associated with the Bishops were such eminent physicians as Sir Thomas Allbutt, Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, Drs. William Brown, J. A. Hatfield, Jane Walker. They heard evidence on behalf of Christian Science and other forms of faith-healing. But their verdict was flatly in favor of doctors...
...From In April Once, a poem by William A. Percy dealing with incidents of the Children's Crusade, 13th Century. One band of children, led by faith, drowned themselves. Thousands were sold into slavery...