Word: insist
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...side of the "reformation"' tradition, Blake suggested that: ¶"The reunited Church must accept the principle of continuing reformation under the Word of God by the guidance of the Holy Spirit ... If the catholic must insist on taking the sacraments more seriously than some protestants have sometimes done, so protestants in the reunited Church must insist on catholics' fully accepting the reformation principle that God has revealed and can reveal Himself and His will more and more fully through the Holy Scriptures.'' ¶ The government of the new church must be democratic rather than hierarchical, recognizing...
...major stumbling block to union." said Dr. Blake last week, "is the problem of ordination. The Episcopalians cherish their apostolic succession as essential-they believe that every bishop is linked all the way back to Peter by the hands placed on his head in ordination. They insist on the laying on of hands. But some Congregationalists and Presbyterians who would be made into bishops in the new church are inclined to say 'Nobody's going to lay a hand on me.' And there are Methodist bishops who would balk at another ordination ceremony on the ground that...
...peace conference on Laos breaks down, as it well may, the Administration may intervene before the Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas can take over the whole country. At the meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Oslo, Secretary of State Dean Rusk reaffirmed the U.S.'s pledge that it will insist "with all means possible" upon continued access to West Berlin. In a speech to a convention of the National Association of Broadcasters, President Kennedy said that in Cuba "the story is not yet finally ended." White House aides explained that the President was determined, by political and economic isolation...
...Bridge the Gap. While promising that there would be no censorship, Minow announced that the FCC will no longer automatically renew the licenses of stations that insist on lowest-common-denominator programing. In the future, the agency will hold public hearings on stations whose performance has not measured up to their promise to offer a diversified output. "For those few of you who really believe that the public interest is merely what interests the public," said
Affairs, of course, are not always quite that pleasant. Occasionally, a legislator will take the floor in the State House, attack Brown as a "million-dollar hotel for out-of-state boys," and then insist that the university's property be put on the tax rolls. These incidents do not happen often, however, and when they do, there is always a large delegation of loyal Brown alumni and friends in the R.I. General Assembly, the Providence City Council, and other government branches ready to defend the university...