Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question before the court in Iowa's Black Hawk County Courthouse last week was tough to answer: What is a Christian? On the answer depended...
...never occurred to Ophthalmologist William B. Small of Waterloo, Iowa, a prominent Methodist layman, that the answer might be difficult. When he died in 1939, his will directed that the income from $75,000 of his estate should be distributed "to persons who believe in the fundamental principles of the Christian religion and in the Bible and who are endeavoring to promulgate same." When his wife died in 1949, ten nephews and nieces sued to break the will. Their argument: "There is no common agreement as to what constitutes the fundamental principles of Christianity...
Then came witnesses for the nephews and nieces to testify that a Christian might believe almost anything, or nothing. As for the Apostles' Creed, said the Rev. Lewis L. Dunnington of Iowa City's First Methodist Church, "many things" in it are unacceptable to many Christians. On the question of the Virgin Birth, for example, "I tell my parishioners to pay their money and take their choice...
Father Robert Spahn, Roman Catholic chaplain for Iowa State Teachers College, pointed out that his church takes a strong stand against private interpretation of the Bible, and warned that a man may be deceived in thinking he is guided by providence. Christ himself, warned Father Spahn, was persecuted by "those who thought they were doing the will...
...Chicago, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Northwestern, Illinois, Illinois Institute of Technology, Indiana, Purdue, Cincinnati, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Wayne, and Notre Dame...