Word: ordain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desire to ordain you and install you. . . . We look to you by your life and your prophetic voice to promote truth and righteousness in the world...
...church members will rise and repeat: "We the congregation ... do hereby ordain...
Last week Dom Carlos, calling himself "Bishop of Rio de Janeiro," told reporters that he hopes soon to ordain ten married lawyers and professional men as priests in his new church...
...Japanese infamy and American shame, Dec. 7, was celebrated in Japan. In the U.S., Congress had asked the President to designate Dec. 7 as "Armed Services Honor Day." The President vetoed the Joint Resolution. "Future events will ordain the proper date for such a commemoration," promised the President. The nation seemed to sustain the veto...
...seminary training, Presbyterians are now faced with the possibility of getting no more ministers for the duration because the draft will get them first. The Assembly pointed out that Presbyterians are handicapped "because some other denominations with lower standards of education [e.g., Baptists and Methodists] are able to ordain ministers at an earlier age than our own; and because some other churches [e.g., Roman Catholics] are able to segregate men as seminarians before they reach draft age." Presbyterians were told to back their ministerial candidates in applying for deferment, if necessary to appeal adverse local-board decisions. Certified pre-seminarians...