Word: worship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jewish tradition the opening statement (Exodus 20:2; Deuteronomy 5:6) of the Lord who brought the Israelites out of Egypt is considered to be the first of the Commandments. The command to worship no other gods and the prohibition of graven images are lumped into the second. From the third through the tenth, the numbering used by the Jews and most Protestants is the same...
Coming only a week after 300 white and Negro pastors met at Nashville to discuss segregation in churches (TIME, May 6), the Presbyterians' message further condemned churchmen and churchgoers who worship with Jim Crow, urged ministers to create "a social climate . . . which will encourage a free concourse of men of good will, regardless of their race, status or national origin." Too often, said the Presbyterians, churches "mistake social compatibility for Christian fellowship," and recruit members from only one stratum of society...
...worship of nature is as old as Chinese history. Confucius, the great precept-giver on manners and morals, said as early as 500 B.C.: "The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills." Lao-tzu, an elder contemporary of Confucius, added another dimension, proclaiming that underlying nature was an all-pervading spiritual force, which he called Tao, and likened to water...
...Benjamin Mays, Negro president of Atlanta's Morehouse College, stated the case clearly for the clergymen (three-fourths of them white, the rest Negro) who showed up. "We speak the same language . . . worship the same God . . . and fight for the same flag . . . Wouldn't it have been wonderful [of the 1954 school desegregation ruling] if the church had led the Supreme Court? But the church didn't lead, and it didn't follow. We lack the moral courage to act." For the next two days, on the desegregated Methodist campus of Scarritt College for Christian Workers...
Roger Wellincroft is told by his father to "go coortin' " Louisa Kilner for her "brass." To the God-fearing Yorkshire farm folk of the East Riding, brass is land, the deity they worship six days of the week. Louisa is to inherit her father's farm on Sunk Island-a flat, melancholy spit of land reclaimed from the Humber estuary. To Sunk Island, Roger goes a-coortin...