Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting chapters is "The Last Stand," in which Hindus indicates quite shrewdly the reasons why Protestantism was doomed almost from the beginning. It was nurtured during the early days of the Revolution because of its antagonism toward the Greek Catholic Church whose grip the Bolsheviks were intent upon breaking; but the honeymoon was soon ended. For it became cleared as the Protestant movement developed that its emphasis on the priority of the individual soul, on the recompenses of the Life of Come, on the sacredness of gospels which the Soviet materialists considered so much eye-wash, on the precedence...
An ordinary bishop's cope (bell-shaped cape of stiffened fabric) costs about $100; a fancy, jeweled one at least $5,000. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry had his cope packed and shipped to Philadelphia in a case big enough for a piano; also his mitre of gold...
Not to miss anything, Dr. Cummins went to Philadelphia too last week. Among themselves the Anglo-Catholics chuckled: "The Archbishop of Poughkeepsie is here, with his Vicar General." Low-churchmen told one another that the Anglo-Catholics had four detectives on Dr. Cummins' trail. When Dr. Cummins returned to...
Mr. Carter's generosity as a contributing Democrat is only equalled by his enthusiasm for the cause and, perhaps, by his ambition to hold office. He takes his politics with the same gusto that he plays bridge (he is an expert) and patronizes sport (he goes to all big...
There might have ended the Gates Bead & String Movement but for a doughty defender of things Protestant, The Chronicle of Poughkeepsie. N. Y. Last week The Chronicle rasped: "It occurs to us that a person who is so little interested in what he has to say to God that he...