Word: revs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baptist layman, I would humbly like to take issue with the Rev. Bliss Wiant. He opposes the singing of gospel hymns in churches [Aug. 31]. These old hymns have been a source of hope and consolation to millions of people throughout the world; they promise help to those who are faithful, honest, and prayerful...
...glad to see that someone in the Methodist Church cares enough about it to effect some much-needed changes in its liturgy. I say hurrah for the Rev. Bliss Wiant...
...days of public hearings in Washington last week, farm employment groups battered his plan (earlier 29 farm-state Congressmen, mostly Southern Democrats, had branded the proposal "illegal, immoral and impracticall"). Alone among farm organizations, the National Farmers' Union came to Mitchell's aid, and the Very Rev. Msgr. George G. Higgins, of the"National Catholic Welfare Conference, praised Mitchell for "the greatest kind of courage...
...Rev. Virginio Rotondi, a scholar who discusses religious questions on television, was talking about a case that had excited all Italy last month. Set upon by five teenagers who tried, unsuccessfully to rape her, pretty Alba Sbrighi, 19, had stabbed and killed one of her assailants with a rusty jackknife. Popular opinion was solidly behind Alba, who is now at liberty pending trial for murder. (The four remaining youths who attacked her are in jail.) But opinion was divided on Jesuit Rotondi's talk interpreting Alba' act in terms of Christian principle...
...religious renascence" is an adequate term for the religious interests of students at Harvard. One must first look askance at the word "religious," which implies some sort of mixture of faith and ritualistic practice. While attendance at Memorial Church has multiplied many fold since the arrival of the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, such has not been the case with other churches in the vicinity, which have been garnering about the same number of worshippers for many years. The new popularity of Mem Church is generally ascribed to the stimulating preaching of Dr. Buttrick, but this does...