Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first place. The 800,000-odd Southern Baptists who have moved north, he said, have not felt that they were wanted in the churches where they have gone. "They are simple people to whom forms and ceremonies are as strange as a foreign tongue, but they love the Lord. Have you been willing to gather with them in their home or perhaps in a crude storefront building and join with them in singing Bringing in the Sheaves, just because you love them in Christ...
Early in Queen Victoria's long reign. Sir Benjamin Hall, her Chief Lord of Woods and Forests, promised Britain's Parliament "a king of clocks, the biggest and best in the world, within sight and sound of the heart of London." He kept his promise grandly. London's great Westminster clock was soon overseeing London's pace, keeping accurate time within a tenth of a second a day; one of its few respites from clockwork occurred in World War II when its works were shaken during a German air raid. One morning last week, when...
...book has 96 pages and 47 chapters, but more than half the space is blank. Chapter 47 is titled "Lord Chesterfield's Last Letter to His Son," and consists entirely of this message: "Dear Junior-Get lost-Dad." But as book stores closed last week, 42,500 copies had been sold, and Jack Douglas' My Brother Was an Only Child (Dutton; $2.50) made the bestseller lists for the ninth straight week...
...brilliant Frenchman's arrival and went to him at his inn to beg him to stay. Calvin declined. Farel roared at him: "You are simply following your own wishes, and I declare in the name of almighty God that if you refuse to take part in the Lord's task in this church, God will curse the quiet life you want for your studies!" Calvin was thoroughly frightened. "I felt," he wrote later, "as if God from heaven had laid his mighty hand on me to stop me from my course ... I did not continue my journey...
...that we claim for the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches we would lay on the altar. We offer it all to our fellow Christians for whatever use it may be to the whole Church. With the whole Church we hold ourselves alert for the surprises with which the Lord of history can alter the tempo of our renewal, and for the new forms with which an eternally recreating God can startle us while he secures his Church. And we strain ahead toward the great day when the richness of our joined memories will be a small sign of the strength...