Word: seculare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Accordingly Abraham Lincoln designated April 30, 1863 as a day of "national humiliation, fasting and prayer." Citizens were to abstain from secular pursuits "and to unite at their several places of public worship and their respective homes in keeping the day holy to the Lord." Concluded the proclamation: "All this being done in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the divine teachings, that the united cry of the nation will be heard on high...
Small, brown and hoary at the head of Wall Street on Manhattan's Broadway stands 237-year-old Trinity Church. Last week its annual report revealed that, like many a great secular corporation in the neighborhood, it had spent last year more than its income. But in the offices of Trinity Corporation on Wall Street no heads were bowed with worry over a deficit of $77,044. Trinity could spend several million dollars a year and still remain the richest church in the U. S., possibly in the world. Its productive real estate holdings in lower Manhattan are assessed...
...amuse, soothe and edify his parishioners, especially at Sunday night services. Every summer Dr. Reisner holds a snow service, with scrapings from an ice plant. He has held whistling services, given away apples, oranges and bread in literal demonstration of scriptural tenets. Other Broadway Temple entertainment includes newsreels, secular singers, bell-ringers, trumpeters and Mr. & Mrs. Vanderbilt Shrump, bird imitators. Before a mirror Dr. Reisner fancies he sees a resemblance between himself and George Washington; once a year he likes to dress up like the Father of his Country and preach a sermon. He has also impersonated Joshua...
Proceeding extemporaneously with prayers, speeches and hymns sung to the Tabernacle organ, one of the world's mightiest, the 104th Conference touched little upon secular problems. Of interest to the Latter-day Saints were reports on their church's huge investments in mines, rails and sugar beets, the extent of which they wisely keep secret...
TIME admits stumbling into a common secular error, accepts rebuke.-ED. Sylvester Harris' System...