Word: pentecostalism
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...Acts make a concise report of the First Pentecost, the founding of the Christian Church 1,900 years ago last Sunday (June 8), an event which Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Episcopalian Churches celebrate annually with due reverence, which other Protestant denominations observe this year with centennial devotion...
...somewhat before 9 a. m. the 50th day (pentecost means 50th day) after Easter. The Jews had celebrated their Pentecost the sennight before, to commemorate Moses' giving their ancestors the Ten Commandments 50 days after the Exodus from Egypt. Peter and the other eleven Apostles, including newly elected Matthias,* were communing in the upstairs room of a Jerusalem house. Then and thus The Acts...
...bodies, the three largest held annual conferences last week?Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (northern, largest) in Cincinnati; Presbyterian Church in the United States (southern, next largest) at Charlottesville, Va.; United Presbyterian Church of North America (middle western) in Des Moines. The imminence of the 1900th Pentecost (June 8) made general church union a prayed-for but no more practical topic than usual at each one of these meetings. Although the Presbyterians have been an exceedingly divisive denomination, most of them have approved and adhere to the general council of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches in America...
...they sat at table in Jerusalem 1,900 years ago, the apostles of Jesus Christ were mystically fired with the impulse to continue his teachings. Ohio churchmen were fired last year with an impulse to celebrate the 19th Centennial of the Pentecost, which was the founding day of the Christian church, and this they did last week in Columbus. Ohio usually has four separate annual conventions under the auspices of the Ohio Council of Churches (17 Protestant denominations) for pastors, laymen, churchwomen, youths. For the centennial Pentecostal celebration, all four conventions were lumped...
...Pentecost of the year 383 A.D., Samaritans at Mount Gerizim massacred Christians. Other Christians were angry and destroyed the Samaritan temple. A church was built on its ruins. Later the church fell to pieces and was buried under debris. This autumn the German Archaeological Institute uncovered the site...