Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church patterns its services on the Episcopalian, its administrative set-up on the Congregational. In 1890 some members, deciding that Emanuel Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating the General Church of the New Jerusalem which now has 2,500 members and the No. 1 Swedenborgian academy at Bryn Athyn...
When the sense of the two Yearly Meetings, Orthodox and Hicksite, had been taken by their respective clerks, these two largest U. S. Quaker societies (91,326 and 16,105 members) were well on the way toward healing a schism, that had parted them for 108 years...
Banding together 126 years ago after a schism in the Baptist Church, the Abyssinian Baptists so named their sect because they liked the sound. They worshipped first in downtown Worth Street, moved northward with the city's color line. When the church was in midtown 26 years ago there arrived in its pulpit a tall, rawboned, Yale-trained Negro named A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell. After years of planning for a model church in Harlem, Pastor Powell began raising money in 1920, got 2,000 people to promise to give their church a tenth of their weekly earnings...
...mediaeval synthesis to social phenomena like the decline of feudalism, that all-embracing system of "organized anarchy," as Professor Haskins once called it. And surely the XIVth century hurly-burly can be shown to be related to the Reformation by economic ties; it is certainly significant that the English schism, in its early stages, was less doctrinal than political, and was anyhow not altogether to be attributed to the amorous ways of Henry VIII, but was part and parcel of an economic motive which despoiled the monasteries. "Money, money maketh man," said old Pindar, and the lines which Langland gives...
...matches are the usual attractions, covered their signs with new ones reading: WELCOME, BAPTISTS, NO BEER and EAT HERE, NO BEER. In session in the Colosseum last week was the 89th annual gathering of the Southern Baptist Convention, a body which, like the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, sprang from schism over slavery (in 1845) with the Northern brethren. Next to Roman Catholicism the largest single U. S. church, the Southern Baptist has 4,173,928 members. In Fort Worth representing its 24,270 churches were 5,000 "messengers"' (delegates), 7,000 visitors...