Word: secularization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news: ¶To the secular indictment of Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, 55, Methodist Episcopal minister of Muncie, Ind., for attempted rape of 18-year-old Helen Huffman (TIME, Feb. 6) : a church trial, with a jury of twelve ministers presided over by Bishop Edgar Blake of Detroit. Preacher Conway was found guilty of "imprudent ministerial conduct," suspended for one year-a penalty which churchmen considered light...
...deals with "some intimate and hitherto unchronicled chapters in the early life of Saint Mara of Trabia," a Croatian woman whose name appears on no church calendar. As the saint. Actress Menken is compelled to choose between a life with a robber called Kristan the Wolf or with a secular gentleman named Josef. The secular gentleman wins out, and toward the close of the play one sees Saint Mara working miracles upon "a man with a twisted foot," "a man with a curved spine" and "a boy with devils"-the latter being Ethel Barrymore's boy John Drew Colt...
...Secular observers at Belgrade remarked that U. S. Depression has "crucially reduced" the amount of remittances by Jugoslavs in the U. S. to their families at home, expressed confidence that such "urgently needed remittances" will increase with the return of U. S. prosperity...
Missions, says the book, must cooperate with non-Christian systems of religion. When missionaries go into teaching, medicine, literature et al., their standards must be higher than those of secular groups. Missionary personnel must be of higher calibre, on the whole, than at present, "even at the risk of curtailing the number of missionaries sent out." There must be concentration of workers
...incredible cacophony which they produced. Each man bawled out his own part in his own time more or less regardless of his neighbors, trusting to Heaven that he might end with the rest. Words of the mass were fitted to folk-tunes and the forbidden modes of secular music were smuggled into the church service. On top of all this the singers are reported to have indulged in violent swaying of the body, in facial contortions, and in the practice of omitting animal cries when the spirit moved. Things went so for that Pope John 22nd issued an edict...