Word: unitarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milton is traditionally supposed to have been the great Puritan poet, but Belloc says the tradition is wrong: Milton was not a Puritan but a Unitarian. During his lifetime he shocked England by his turgid pamphleteering for divorce; at his death he cautiously left unpublished a lengthy Latin treatise, De Doctrina Christiana, "a refutation of the Trinity, of Monogamy, of the absolute Creator, even of the immortal soul." When Charles II was restored, Milton hurriedly got rid of a mass of incriminating papers, including the dangerous De Doctrina. The manuscript eventually found its way to the Record Office, lay there...
...bodies, bulwarks of morals, at the same time have withdrawn old objections to birth control. Notable groups which have expressly approved: Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, Lambeth Conference of Bishops of the Church of England, General Council of Congregational and Christian Churches, Universalist General Convention, American Unitarian Association, Central Conference of American Rabbis, several regional conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Bliven spoke last night on journalism and the New Deal at a dinner meeting of the Unitarian Club in Boston. He deplored a lack of freedom in modern journalism and maintained that such freedom as still exists is steadily diminishing...
Last week in Oklahoma City Rev. Homer Lewis Sheffer told his congregation at First Unitarian Church that he was resigning, to accept a call from the First Unitarian Society of Spokane. Wash. "I assure you," said Pastor Sheffer crisply from his pulpit, "that there have been no pious conversations with the Almighty. Other opportunities have come to me but I have turned them down. This time I cannot...
John Harvard's three hundred and twenty-seventh birthday will be celebrated by a special service in the Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church today at 8.45 o'clock this morning, held under the auspices of the Memorial Society. Henry Wilder Foote '97, Minister of the first Unitarian Church, Belmont, will give the commemorative address. A Baccalaureate Hymn, written by Lionel DeJersey Harvard, a lineal descendant of John Harvard, for his own Commencement in 1915, will be sung at the conclusion of the service after which the members of the Memorial Society will place a wreath on the John Harvard...