Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headed for the nearest airport. In Indianapolis, A. Garnett Day Jr., an official of the Disciples of Christ, was about to emplane for New York when he heard that King was calling for help. Day walked back into the terminal, bought a ticket for Alabama. Also in Indianapolis, Jewish Mission Worker David Goldstein had an appointment to seek a salary raise from his boss; he canceled it and headed for Selma. California's Episcopal Bishop James Pike interrupted a trip to New Orleans and flew into Alabama. Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord, vice president of the National Council...
...With the coming of World War II, both duke and duchess made an effort to serve in the ranks. In the quiet months of the "phony" war, Wallis was with the French Red Cross and the duke tried to make himself useful at the British Military Mission at Vincennes. Perhaps to get them both out of harm's way, the duke was then made Governor of the Bahamas...
...respected man, Scott is looked upon as one of the strongest forces for revitalization within the party, and the GOP certainly never needed him more than it does now. The Senator has accepted the role with vigor; he has about him the aura of a man with a mission. And when he says, "We'll get our party back," one gets the impression that he is just...
...Primary Mission. These perennial opponents have been joined by a number of responsible laymen and clerics of the council's member churches who are arguing vigorously that the main business of the clergy is to save souls, and not to transform society. One of them is the Rev. Carl Henry, editor of the fortnightly Christianity Today, who argues that the clergy's primary mission "is to invite sinful men to their Savior and Lord, who shapes a new character and morality. The clergy have neither a divine mandate nor authority nor special competence to articulate particular programs...
...Portuguese have controlled Mozambique since Vasco da Gama landed there on his way to India in 1498, but they have never really successfully colonized it. Although the Portuquese boast of their five centuries of "non-racial, Christian, civilizing mission," less than one percent of Mozambique's seven million African inhabitants are literate and less than five percent can speak Portuguese...