Word: worship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries sixty of them has done a deed of open-handed generosity so sublime that the nations would stand uncovered in his presence and worship in silence...
...tomb, a looted dustbin, the shadow under the lamp; it is four parts filth and one part hypocrisy, a cow-dung country inhabited by people with a cow-dung mentality. Cries one Indian youth: "There's no depth of superstition to which Indians won't sink. We worship cows and cobras. We have eight million 'holy men,' most of them naked and all of them mad. Everything of any value was taken long ago by the conquerors .. . They took the strength from the soil, the virtue from the women, and the will power from...
...Joseph Barth in announcing the new plan from the pulpit: "The church no longer dominates our Sunday activity or lack of it. Sunday is becoming the church's chief contribution to the long weekend. Why not, then, this spring, as not too radical a solution, extend Sunday morning worship opportunity into the week? Free the conscience of individuals for enjoyment of the long weekend by repeating the Sunday service and sermon the following Thursday night. In the spirit of Jesus, we might say: the sabbath was made for man-especially in New England in the springtime...
...History Professor Georges Florovsky of Harvard Divinity School, is "quite normal." Wrote Philosophy Professors Raphael Demos and Donald C. Williams: "A church is not a cafeteria in which all religions may be served to all comers. Any church is some Church ... As such it has its own order of worship and other rules. It has its own sacred symbols; its cross is not something to shift around like a piece of stage scenery ... By welcoming, without query, the services of all faiths, the church would in effect exclude everyone whose religion is more than a gesture; it would be making...
Last week Dr. Buttrick backed down. On his recommendation, the Harvard Corporation announced: "The Harvard community is today a mixed society. It contains numerous groups with religious loyalties other than those which gave shape to Harvard's ceremonies of public worship." Therefore, "such private services (as weddings and funeral services) may be conducted in Memorial Church by an official of an individual's own religion when this is desired, provided he is willing to do so notwithstanding the church's essentially Christian character...