Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appointed a committee to consider whether the wording of the Lord's Prayer should be changed from "Forgive us our debts" (Presbyterian usage) to "Forgive us our sins"* or a "similar phrase." The motion to change came from the Nebraska City Presbytery, which argued that present-day Christians "stand in need of an incessant reminder of the implications of sin and the need for forgiveness...
...discovered that, through a parliamentary error the week before, it had repealed the rule requiring a one-year wait before the remarriage of a divorced person. Actually, the Assembly had meant to strengthen the rule by requiring pastors to assure themselves of the person's "penitence for past sin and failure" (TIME, June 2), forgot to write the one-year rule into the revised provision. The Assembly will have to wait till next year to redress its mistake...
...allotted to home and foreign missions in 1953. ¶ Voted to end the rule requiring a one-year waiting period before a divorced person may remarry, but bade pastors assure themselves of the person's "penitence for past sin and failure." ¶ Heard Retiring Moderator Harrison Ray Anderson report that Presbyterian membership is up 25% since 1945, enrollment in Presbyterian seminaries up 220% (to 1,450) since...
...York Post's smart, stocky Editor James A. Wechsler, 36, serves up Fair-Dealing, "see here now!" editorials along with a leavening mixture of sex, sin and revelation. By now, the Post's formula for revelation has become pat: a continuous series of wordy but provocative sketches of favorite Post whipping boys, e.g., Senator McCarthy, Walter Winchell, Westbrook Pegler. When U.S.A. Confidential began making headlines and the bestseller lists, Wechsler spotted ideal subjects for his next serial scorcher: the book's authors, the New York Mirror's editor, Jack Lait, and its nightclub columnist, Lee Mortimer...
Whittaker Chambers, at the same Washington hearing, was called a "liar, spy and traitor." He admitted it, calling himself "an erring, inadequate man, capable of folly, sin and fear . . . I only sought prayerfully to know and to do God's purpose with...