Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body of their Master to stand guard over it until Judgment Day. For they believed that the terrible events of their time were surely heralding the visitation of God Himself, when the Kingdom of Heaven [would] come in ... They believed their Master would rise again and lead his faithful flock (the people of the new testament, as they called themselves) to a new and purified Jerusalem...
...Another flock of 1956 models rolled into dealers' showrooms last week -full speed astern. In ads, sales talks and posters, the automakers were putting most of the emphasis on the rear ends of their new cars. The design changes that in other years were known as face lifting, cracked a design expert, should be known this year as "tail lifting," since the major body changes were in back...
...built up his world of signs and symbols to solve the problems of his everyday existence and then to expand his civilization. He starts with the sun and the moon, man's first clocks and calendars, and with the notches that the shepherd cut when counting his flock. Then come the calendar keepers, the powerful group who could tell people when to plant crops. Later men developed more complicated desires. The farmer wanted to know how much land he had, the sailor what course to plot, the priest what taxes to collect. Out of each of these developed...
...that pastors away from the factory might not fully understand. Furthermore, by being stationed in a plant, they are readily available to backslid churchgoers who might hesitate to consult a minister or priest. After going to an industrial chaplain for guidance, many a strayed sheep has returned to the flock. On their part, corporations have found that industrial chaplains are a distinct aid to morale, production, and the well-being of employees. Said Le Tourneau's Chaplain Barney Walker: "A man at peace with himself and the world around him is a good worker...
...Bruder was appointed to St. Elizabeths by the Washington Federation of Churches as what he considers the first real minister to the mentally ill in the U.S. During 3½ years as an Anglican parish minister in Canada. Pastor Bruder felt that he was failing some members of his flock through lack of understanding. Then he heard of the Council for Clinical Training, founded in 1925 by a Congregationalist minister named Anton T. Boisen, who had once been a mental patient himself. Anglican Bruder took one of the council's twelve-week courses, found the work with patients...