Word: saviour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Have your child baptized early, the vicar of St. Saviour's in Walthamstow, England urged his parishioners. The Rev. Cyril W. Nye, 61, was not voicing concern about the little ones tossing in limbo; it was their tossing in his arms that bothered him. Said he: "Please, please try to bring your children along before they are two months old. Babies of six months and over are uncommonly awkward to handle. When the baptismal water is poured over their heads, they react strongly and try to get away . . . That can be quite tricky with a healthy, struggling infant...
...unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord...
...Missionary Church. "The church has also a redemptive role to fulfill . . . Evangelism, the confrontation of men with Jesus Christ so that they may accept Him as their Saviour and follow Him as their Lord in the fellowship of the church, is the church's primary task. It is not sufficient that the Gospel be preached in established places of worship. It is necessary that it be taken to the people. Let our complacency be shaken by the fact that today, even while church membership stands at an alltime peak in the history of our country, there are still...
...eyes of an insensitive society) and the Deep Blue Sea (or death, which she believes to be the only escape). The play opens with her attempted suicide and progresses through her relationships with her lover, her estranged husband, and an ex-doctor who ultimately proves to be her saviour. Though loosely constructed, the plot is not without tension and suspense. Mr. Rattigan's terrific seriousness accounts for much of this, for we are led to believe that far below the surface of interweaving love, lust, and indifference, there is profound moral to be found. There is a moral: "Take...
...mountain. It was mid-afternoon when they came back, pulling a lifeless, blanket-covered form on a toboggan. The vicar came out to meet them. Head bare, his overcoat collar turned up around his neck, he read from a prayer book: "Into thy hands, O merciful Saviour, we commend the soul of thy servant, now departed from the body . . ." Then he bent over the toboggan and wept...