Word: pews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ecumenism gathers momentum. Ecumenism is treason to the Reformation. The World Council's dialogue with Rome is a surrender of Christian allegiance to the truth; its dialogue with Jewish leaders follows the same syncretistic trends. Those liberals are going ahead without taking account of the people in the pew. That's where we step in. We talk to the people in the pew...
...church union. If you were to poll the average congregation about the six-church consultation, half the members wouldn't know what you were talking about." According to the Rev. Albert Shirkey of Washington's Mount Vernon Methodist Church, "the pulpit is far more interested than the pew"; yet other church observers feel that some ministers have been reluctant to talk up union because merger threatens their job security...
Escorting the President into the church, Sydnor took him to Pew No. 60, which has been restored to its original condition, right down to a place for the heated bricks that Washington and his family used to warm their feet. Sydnor explained that Washington always sat in the far corner of the pew, so that with only a slight turn of his head he could see both the front of the church and the congregation and thus "have a command of the situation." Lyndon sat where Washington had, in full command...
Died. Arthur Pew Jr., 66, grandson of Sun Oil Co. Founder Joseph Pew, and one of the five Pews on Sunoco's board of directors, who in 1933 as vice president in charge of manufacturing gave French Chemist Eugene Houdry the labs and financial backing that led to the Houdry catalytic refining process, which produced the first high octane gas; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia...
...were accustomed to using grape juice instead of wine at their Communion services, and were willing to adopt the other churches' usage of ordinary loaf bread instead of unleavened wafers. The Presbyterians, in turn, agreed to take Communion at the altar rail in stead of in the pew. Both the Methodists and the Presbyterians accepted the phrasing of the Apostles' Creed used at St. Matthew's-Christ descended into Hell (rather than Hades), and the Holy Catholic (not Christian) Church...