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Best of all, they liked the infrequent glimpses of her straight-backed figure, in long, lavender coat and jeweled turban, stalking through the rubble of wartime London with her inevitable, restless, prying umbrella, authoritative as a royal mace, or the sight of the old Queen pottering in & out of antique shops, slipping into the back row of suburban movie theaters, sweeping down Pall Mall in her towering automobile. "I think they call it a Daimler," she told a bemused G.I. to whom she gave a ride...
...20th century, however, it was plain to see that Throne and Altar had its drawbacks. Sheltered by the umbrella of the Supreme Bishop's authority and supported by state funds,, the official Lutheran Church often became a state bureaucracy and bore little active Christian witness in the life outside the church doors...
Romans & Revelation. In 1918. Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last Supreme Bishop of German Lutheranism, abdicated. Throne and Altar fell apart, and the Protestant state church, after almost 400 years under the state's umbrella, was out in a misty modern world...
...Hunters & Hospitals. Everywhere he went, said Dr. Van Dusen, the Christian church was "the one resourceful, untiring, dauntless ministrant to human need-human need of all kinds." The old-fashioned picture of the missionary as a "well-intentioned but rather commonplace preacher, a Bible in one hand and an umbrella in the other, standing under a palm tree exhorting half-naked savages to discard their heathen ways" is as out of date as the daguerreotype. The typical Christian mission today is a center of three or four buildings-a hospital, a school, a church-from which a team...
...coast of Europe and into the English Channel moved the tiny Galeb, beneath an umbrella of R.A.F. planes. Tito transferred to the Port of London launch Nore, passed up the Thames under London's bridges (closed off and guarded by armed police) to Westminster Pier for a grade A reception by Prime Minister Churchill, Foreign Secretary Eden, the Duke of Edinburgh, a 166-man brass band. Then a War Office armored Rolls-Royce with bulletproof windowglass whisked Tito and Churchill off to No. 10 Downing Street...