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...Leghorn, a squad marched into the mission hall of the largely Texas-supported Church of Christ, where a score of worshipers were holding services, herded Italians out. Americans were not disturbed, but an Italian pastor from Florence was taken into custody, later handed a one-way ticket to his home town...
...chief enemies of the Christian home, as listed by the Rev.-James A. Jones, pastor of Myers Park Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, N.C., in a speech to his city's Parents' League last week: "The multiplicity of civic enterprises . . . Some parents are so involved in the serious business of doing something for the children of the community that they fail to do as they should for the children of their own homes . . . [Even] the church may invade too deeply the interests of a home. Parents have no right to look after the affairs of the church down...
...meaning are increasingly lost to the American, even the regular churchgoer, and that without the interpretation and dramatic support of the simple rites of the church, to receive whatever solace and comfort is available in the despair of death, more and more people look to the funeral director as pastor and priest...
...President Eisenhower's pastor, the Rev. Edward Elson of Washington's National Presbyterian Church, credited Ike with leading "one of the great periods of religious renaissance in our national history." Said he: "There is a fresh naturalness and manliness to prayer ... By his regular participation in Christian worship, by the maintenance of his personal spiritual disciplines and through his public utterances, the President is pointing America to the way of faith...
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