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Ecumenical Century. The new merger underscored a glacially slow but unmistakable trend in sect-ridden U.S. Protestantism. During the late 18th and first half of the 19th Centuries, Christianity in America tended to spatter in sectarian fragments like a spoonful of quicksilver dropped suddenly on marble. Now, in the 20th Century, U.S. Christians have begun to coalesce on their common Christian ground...
Dwight wanted to go to West Point. Over Dwight, Ida Eisenhower prayed. She was a member of the River Brethren, a Mennonite sect, and she did not believe in armies or war. But when his appointment came she said: "I chose my way," and she let Dwight choose...
Despite its Presbyterian tie, Marie Schultze has taken her clinic far above sect. Mothers in the 100% Catholic neighborhood never balk at going to the Protestant clinic. All but one of her doctors are Catholic, and when good Nurse Schultze got her medal, a Catholic priest made the introductory speech...
...series of sermons, Preacher-Professor Hedley asked the students what they wanted to hear, learned they were most puzzled by the differences between the major sects of Christianity. Hedley's resulting sermons boosted chapel attendance about 25%. As he described each sect, Methodist Hedley did his best to approximate its ritual; i.e., for his sermon on Quakers he took down decorations and cross, sat in a business suit in the front...
...grim view of the sacrilegious thefts. Said he in a pastoral letter published in the press: "There exist individuals and organized groups of people who are trying to get consecrated hosts, which they profane and use for unmentionable purposes during their meetings." In another letter he wrote: "A sect which sustains the part of Judas the Traitor is at work, and is all the more repulsive because . . . boys are abused...