Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward C. Moore, who, as amiable, learned preacher to Harvard University, has helped make the voluntary religious services in Appleton Chapel there popular among the students, is also president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (oldest foreign mission society in the U. S.; formed 1810). As such, he reported with especial pleasure last week that his Board had been good housekeepers during their fiscal year, which ended Aug. 31. Contrary to expectations they had lived within their means, had spent $2,152,272 of the $2,152,765 donated their work by legacies, by individuals, by churches...
...only god and he, Mohammed, was His rasul (prophet). The powerful Koreish clan in Mecca scowled. Mohammed's friends, now dubbed Moslems (traitors) found it best to keep his revelations secret. It was four years before their number was great enough for him to broach his mission openly in Mecca...
...first time, after 400 years, the Eternal Priest is absent from the house of God. Jesus Christ who day and night was to be found in each of our temples carrying on His mission as Saviour, and now with him the priest, has had to retire. Your minister has had to retire, the intermediary between heaven and earth, who teaches the doctrines of the Redeemer, who regenerated your children with the waters of baptism who pardoned your faults and healed your sorrows, who lifted heavenward the Body of Christ offered in the Sacrifice, who gave ( you the bread...
...takes his place among Boise people as if he had not been away most of the time for a decade and a half. When he came this time, a little group met him at the train. There was handshaking under the belltower of Boise's unique Spanish mission railroad station. The prohibition director for Idaho and Montana took charge of the Senator's luggage. In the car of friends he rode down into the sea of trees beneath the green waves of which are the paved streets and houses of Boise. Trees, you know, gave the city...
...Boris Kraevsky, Soviet Commercial Agent to South America, cabled jubilantly last week to Moscow. He had just secured the first de jure recognition of Soviet Russia by a South American state- Uruguay. To newsgatherers he said: "My mission consists purely in establishing commercial relations between the U. S. S. R. (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics: Russia) and South America. . . . Yes, I have installed a central office in Buenos Aires. . . . During the past eight months our purchases of Uruguayan products have totaled...