Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued to pay its tribute to the Church, the Vatican must promise that all the money would be spent in Spain, not given over to the Church for general expenses. Next it was decreed that no Government official should attend church festivals in his official capacity, no priest should preach on political matters. Spanish cemeteries, in which only Catholics have had the right of Christian burial, were to be open to all. At the week's end no effort had yet been made to disestablish monasteries, recapture Church property...
...Moscow as potential workers for a Soviet revolution in the U. S. Such a Negro is William Lorenzo Patterson, frankly a Communist, who after three and one-half years in Russia returned to the U. S. last week on his valid U. S. passport and began at once to preach Communist doctrines which appeared in front-page position before the 41,000 Negro readers of Harlem's Amsterdam News. Communist Patterson is a member of the New York Bar, a former law partner of two Negroes who are now Assistant District Attorneys in New York City. As a youth...
Over the pulpit in the Little Christian Union Church of Halley's Bluff, Mo. hangs this motto: CHRISTIAN UNION WITHOUT CONTROVERSY. Yet because the pastor. Rev. James Alexander Brown, 67, could not eke out a living from his 75% of the Sunday collections and was obliged to preach occasionally in a rival church, the Christian Union congregation started a controversy which ended with Mr. Brown's resignation last December...
...true that any place where "old" Dr. Peabody of blessed memory used to preach and Mr. Longfellow used to go of a Sunday ought to carry its benediction; but it strikingly failed to carry it in its face. The cost of building having fallen, a prudent corporation is talking of putting up the memorial chapel. Some of the children are bawling in the college papers with that zeal which sounds so funny to their elders, long vaccinated against any excess of that quality. Cambridge and Boston are chock full of churches. What's the use of building a church where...
Next day, Bruce's own mind almost unhinged, his Christian faith quite gone, he announced to the blind man his conversion to the Truth of Nature, said he would go out and preach under the trees against all churches. But Midland was spared this final apotheosis. That night an idiot boy set fire to the Methodist church, then hid in a barn. The boy's mother, frantic, thought he was still in the burning building. Bruce plunged in to save the idiot and went to glory in the flames...