Word: halford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian Century's columnist, Simeon Stylites (real name: the Rev. Halford E. Luccock), observed that "some whirling dervishes of white supremacy" in South Africa and the U.S. seem to have discovered a new version of the Bible: the Jim Crow Bible. Sample verses: "Suffer little white children, and forbid them not, to come unto me [Matthew 19:14]"', "Come unto me, all ye Caucasians that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest [Matthew...
Columnist SIMEON STYLITES (Halford E. Luccock), in the Protestant weekly CHRISTIAN CENTURY...
...garbed themselves in blue; the vice chancellor of the university and his colleagues put on their gowns and hoods. Then, as the bells of St. Martin's and St. Mary's tolled, the berobed host marched to the university's Sheldonian Theater. There, Vice Chancellor Alic Halford Smith made Mayor W. R. Gowers (a Cambridge man) a doctor of civil law. "Salvete Oppidani!" cried the university's Public Orator. "Salvete Academid!" Welcome town, welcome gown...
...Professor of Homiletics at Yale's Divinity School, the Rev. Halford E. Luccock, 68, has spent the last 25 years teaching his theological students how to preach with wisdom and, if possible, with wit. Since 1948, writing under the name of Simeon Stylites in the Christian Century, he has given his readers a weekly column of pungently good-humored religious and moral criticism. His slogan: "I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable...
...Halford Luccock's advice and conclusion: "We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people...