Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bare little church, with its severe, varnished interior, its six plain glass windows, its 17 pews, was jammed, as always, with Americans and their children in their Sunday best. The tall, 68-year-old pastor took his text from Matthew 2:1: "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the King, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem . . ." The minister laid down his Testament, and began his sermon...
...Prophet Micah in the Old Testament called Bethlehem small compared with other towns; but it had a notable history, even before his prophecy that from it would come 'The Shepherd of Israel' . . . The wise men of Matthew's account may have been reluctant to leave the capital city, Jerusalem, at the direction of the scribes, and journey eight miles further to this modest village. But though they left Herod and his palace behind them, they went on and found indeed the genuine Prince of the House of David...
...Copy. When Commodore Matthew Perry and his "black boats" opened up Japan to the Western world in 1854, Dr. Hepburn heard a special call for his services which he could not refuse. The Presbyterians wanted to send a missionary, but the Japanese forbade conversion to Christianity on pain of death. A medical missionary was the answer; Dr.Hepburn set sail with his wife in 1859, to become one of the first Protestant missionaries to Japan...
Five Yard and Cambridge policemen had their hands full yesterday controlling the onlookers--sometimes over 500 strong. "Way back" shouts of Lieut. Matthew Tooey usually evoked a little more than "push 'em back" chant from the flocking spectators...
...Cowles-owned Register & Tribune syndicate had already signed up 75 newspapers. Two other syndicates will soon distribute similar "inspirational" columns by two other bestselling religious authors. For a weekly sermon on such subjects as "The Philosophy of Pleasure" by Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen (Peace of Soul), the George Matthew Adams syndicate has lined up 25 newspapers. For the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (A Guide to Confident Living), the Post-Hall syndicate has signed 34 newspapers...