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...would things look,'' Earth asks, "if Rome were one day simply to overtake us and place us in the shadows, so far as renewing of the Church through the Word and Spirit of the Gospel is concerned? What if we should discover that the last are first and the first last, that the voice of the Good Shepherd should find a clearer echo over there than among us?" The renewal of Roman Catholicism, Earth concludes, summons Protestantism to seek its own renewal, "to sweep away the dust before the door of our own church with a careful...
...wider outlook began to prevail. The church's first official missionary branch, the Society for Propagating the Gospel, was chartered in 1701. In the 19th century, Anglican evangelizing got valuable assistance from the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church. At the first Lambeth conference of Anglican Bishops, in 1867, there were 68 prelates from outside England and Wales. At the next Lambeth conference, in 1968, more than two-thirds of the 350 bishops will represent countries where English is not the mother tongue...
...began his rapid and seemingly effortless rise to the top rank of the Established Church. He served for two years as a deacon and priest in a Liverpool slum parish before moving on to more gracious livings in Lincoln, Boston, Durham and Cambridge. His first theological writings-The Gospel and the Catholic Church, The Resurrection of Christ, The Glory of God and the Transfiguration of Christ-earned him applause in churchly reviews and a promotion to Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. Then 45, he already looked so venerable that his students used to joke about old ladies helping...
Jackie Washington, the Silver Leaf Gospel Singers and Eric Von Schmidt head the bill for a folksing tonight in Sanders Theater at 8 p.m. The proceeds of the event, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, will be donated to the Greater Boston Committee for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...
...this month's Tour de France. "My morale is no good," he said. Ah, ha! cried sportswriters, who decided that Anquetil was finally over the hill. Oh no! cried his sponsors-a bicycle manufacturer and an aperitif firm, who were counting on Jacques to spread their gospel through the provinces. Oh well, sighed Anquetil, and sullenly hopped aboard his fragile racing bike and pedaled off with the pack. What happened? Anquetil won for the fourth time, another record, and the third year...