Word: ordain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian churches of the U. S., feminists give much credit for the emancipation of U. S. women. Yet in church matters women are still denied equality with men. A few large churches* ordain women as ministers, but few women ever get important appointments as pastors...
...saints is to be staked out through the New York Stock Exchange as a Federal project. . . . Let us patrol well our 20th-century business highway! Let us crucify the thieves, as Pontius Pilate would have done had he been attending to his job. But do not ordain that everyone moving along on his lawful occasions shall conform his pace to that of the slowest and worst-equipped blunderer...
...Peoria, Ill., Rev. Dr. Beryl Gilbert Drake, an evangelist trained under Aimee Semple McPherson, runs Trinity Tabernacle, speaks over the radio, publishes a weekly paper for his devoted flock. As head of Trinity Tabernacle Corp. he is entitled under an Illinois charter to ordain ministers. One night last week 1.500 people packed Trinity Tabernacle to behold Evangelist Drake perform his 15th ordination. While the candidate knelt before him the evangelist spoke routine words of blessing. Then Dr. Drake lifted the newly created minister to a chair behind the pulpit and a middle-aged woman who had been hovering...
Plymouth Brethren do not ordain ministers- TIME errs slightly but will be promptly forgiven if it will continue to report activities of this mighty, self-sacrificing man of God whose life and faith have been an inspiration to thousands...
...have decided and hereby declare, ordain and command," proclaimed the Maharaja, "that henceforth there shall be no restriction placed on any Hindu by birth or religion from entering or worshipping at temples controlled by the Government of Travancore...