Word: synods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost as breathtaking as if the Vatican had suddenly given its blessing to atheism. The Moscow radio announced this week that the Soviet Government would permit what remains of the Greek Orthodox Church,* disestablished since the Russian Revolution, to elect a Patriarch and form a Holy Synod. This act would amount to official restoration of the church in Russia, where, despite official Soviet apologetics, religion has in effect been banned since the advent of the Bolsheviks...
...Reformed Church's General Synod, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., told the State Department that "the duty has been laid upon us by Christ to preach the Gospel to all nations. . . . [To] restrain all but one faith from doing what under conscience is the duty of all faiths is a violation of religious liberty...
...Congregational Christian Churches (1,049,575 members), which in 1931 united the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers of 1620 with a Methodist offshoot founded in North Carolina in 1793. The other is the Evangelical and Reformed Church (685,571 members), formed in 1934 by combining the Evangelical Synod (a Midwestern fusion of Lutheran and Calvinistic thought, not to be confused with the Evangelical Church, which is Methodistic) and the Reformed Church in the U.S. (a Calvinistic-German-Swiss group strong in Pennsylvania and Ohio, not to be confused with the "Dutch" Reformed Church in America, which centers in Manhattan...
Over this synod, the President proclaimed, would sit a "moderator" who presumably would speak for the public. Presumably, he would also speak for Mr. Roosevelt. It was that perilous position to which railbirds nominated Mr. Willkie...
There were four other churches within two miles when Frederick William Otterbein went to North Austin as a seminary student to round up a congregation for the $13,000 bungalow chapel the synod had built on the outskirts. That was in 1920, and in September he had rounded up 51 members. Today the church has 5,577 on its rolls, the free-will offerings have passed $68,000 a year, mission contributions for 1941 will run close to $25,000, the plant is worth $300,000, the debt has been cut to $30,000, and every Sunday three services...