Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...take this opportunity to express to you my appreciation of your magazine? A minister hasn't very much time for so-called secular reading, but after reading TIME I feel that I am well posted on the current affairs of the day. I look forward eagerly to its arrival, and never let it go until I have read it from cover to cover. In any intellectual group I am always proud to give TIME as my authority...
TIME admits stumbling into a common secular error, accepts rebuke.-ED. Sylvester Harris' System...
Most of the secular Press has ignored the Goodwin Plan. But the church Press has been explanatory and denunciatory, with the liberal Christian Century the most vigilant. Seizing upon the list of churchmen who endorsed the Goodwin Plan, the Christian Century got Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston and Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman of Manhattan, both famed Methodists, to recant. Not to be shamed out of their support for this temple & trade hookup, however, were Episcopal Bishops George Craig Stewart (Chicago) and James Matthew Maxon (Tennessee); Methodist Bishops Francis John McConnell (New York) and Ernest Lynn Waldorf (Chicago...