Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Christ came into the world, He found the church loaded down with ritual and formalism. . . . The spirit of religion [had] been displaced by empty form. ... To build up an internal rather than an external religion . . . was Christ's mission on earth. Few and simple were the forms He set up or sanctioned. . . . Far be it from any true follower of Christ to minimize the spiritual value of these symbols, [but] can we imagine that . . . Christ . . . would regard [their] observance or nonobservance . . . as of sufficient importance to justify controversy among His followers, and their separation into rival factions? . . . What...
...This reborn church . . . would pronounce ordinance, ritual, creed, all nonessential for admission into the Kingdom of God or His Church. A life, not a creed, would be the test. ... It would be the church of all the people . . . the church of the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant, the high and the low-a true democracy. ... I see all denominational emphasis set aside. I see cooperation, not competition. ... I see the church through its members molding the thought of the world and leading in all great movements. I see it literally establishing the Kingdom...
This dispassionate ceremony is the ritual of a mystical order of which slight, agreeable, cigaret-smoking Swami Prabhavananda is the Los Angeles leader. It is an outgrowth of a small monastic community founded in India late last century in the name of Sri Ramakrishna, one of the great teachers of Indian Vedanta, the underlying philosophy of Indian religion...
...first day Welles committed the high journalistic sin of describing an event before it happened. His column, written three days before the Term IV inaugural but published two days after it, told how Franklin Roosevelt "played his part in the ritual like a veteran bridegroom. I was there. . . ." In his second try, Wonderboy Welles professed accurate knowledge of what Stalin had told his Big Three partners-at Teheran, Churchill and Roosevelt had wanted to refer a matter to their experts; Stalin rejoined: "Can't we three decide anything...
Gibran preached a diffuse Christianity without creed or ritual. He organized no church, held no services. Small groups of admirers formed in different cities; Lebanese exiles circulated around him; circles of twelve poets each, appointed for life and acknowledging Gibran as master, were organized in New York, Damascus, Beirut. His poetry in Arabic was apparently more striking than his vague, formless lines in English would suggest...