Word: worship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inviting imprisonment by a reckless shot at the Fuhrer the Bishop declared: "Great men can be spoiled by too much worship and adulation and made incompetent to fulfill the aims of statesmanship. No nation should seek to elevate a faithful son of the Fatherland to the throne...
Following St. Paul's admonition to the Corinthians, the Roman Catholic Church enjoins its womenfolk to cover their heads at worship, if only with a shawl or handkerchief. Last week the Vicar General of the Catholic diocese of Louisville, Very Rev. E. Erie Willett, startled the faithful within and without his flock when, presumably acting for Louisville's Bishop John A. Floersh, he declared that the currently fashionable, crownless "halo hats" are inadequate for Catholic church wear. Quipped Vicar General Willett: "I am sorry that the ladies here will have to wait until they get to heaven before...
This point was made more sharply by Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert of the Federal Council of Churches, who complained that a visitor to the U. S. "would not find Negro and white Christians worshipping together before God, who is the Father of both. He would not find the employer and his factory workers meeting in the same place of worship. . . . The hungry, the insecure and the dispossessed he would seldom find in any church...
Solemnly the Most Noble Order of the Garter, headed by the King & Queen, shuffled into place, proceeded to St. George's Chapel-the choir of which is the Garter Chapel-to worship together for the first time in 23 years, the second time in 129. Each knight filed into his own stall over which, during his lifetime, hang his sword, helmet, crest and banner...
...possible exception of the mosque in Paris, which charges five francs entrance fee and contains two cafés, the Nizamiah Mosque-designed on Oriental lines by Sir Brumwell Thomas-will be the finest in any non-Moslem land. For U. S. Mohammedans there are two places for formal worship, a small, three-story frame building in Brooklyn and a temple in Michigan City, Ind., whose 80 Moslems plan to build a mosque when they acquire enough money. Elsewhere Moslems who cannot gather in large groups are content to worship in one another's homes. Singapore has the world...