Word: worship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church: "I will be faithful and true, and faith and truth will bear unto you, our Sovereign Lady . . . Defender of the Faith." Next came Philip, her husband, first peer of the realm. "I, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, do become your liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship: and faith and truth I will bear unto you, to live and die against all manner of folks. So help me God." The Duke touched his sovereign's Crown, kissed his wife on the left cheek, then descended the five steps of the dais to his place...
...ever since. "Why did the bishop do it?" asked 74-year-old John Monk, nephew and namesake of the founder of Newton Grove's first Catholic church, and plenty of his neighbors agreed with him. They petitioned Bishop Waters, and many of them said they would take their worship elsewhere...
They are blacks and whites, browns and yellows, dukes and Dyaks, cannibals and countesses, Klondike trappers and Scottish Trappists, Royal Lancers and Fijian dancers. They worship many gods, among them Allah, Buddha, the Christian Trinity, Lutembe the Crocodile of Uganda, and, in some cases, Mammon. They make their homes where birth or the spirit of adventure placed them-on an entire continent, on great islands and pinprick islets, in obscure deserts, tropical jungles, foam-flecked northern fishing villages, places with exotic names like Zanzibar, edible-sounding names like the Cameroons or Tortola, improbable names like Gozo or Piddlehinton, famous ones...
After most of the synagogues in Germany had been burned in the great purge of 1938, Rabbi Baeck went on conducting clandestine services. Once police found his meeting, raided it, and sent everyone under 60 off to forced labor in factories. But the next Saturday more people came to worship. Four times Rabbi Baeck was arrested and four times he was released. Meanwhile, from outside Germany came tempting offers. To one of them, Cincinnati's Rockdale Temple, Baeck sent a characteristic cable: "As long as there is a single, humble Jew left alive in Germany, my place is here...
...little white Americans generally know about their colored fellow citizens. Negroes, in the phrase of the sociologists, have "high social visibility." But their lives are in effect invisible to most Americans, who rarely bother to look behind the Color Curtain at the Negroes' homes, their places of work or worship, or their spirit. There is, as a matter of fact, some news about Negro golfing...