Word: worship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...benevolently neutral towards religion." The government gives financial subsidies to Roman Catholics, Protestants and Jews, but no attempt is made to control religious policy. Protestants in Belgium are generally "confident, happy and grateful to God and the Belgian government for the freedom which they enjoy to engage in worship and to propagate their faith...
...clerical state where a dictator has nationalized a dominant church." But though the country's press has long been silent on the existence of Portugal's 15,000 Protestants, Mackay reports that they enjoy relative freedom. Protestants can get permission to open new places of worship and hold public meetings. Dr. Mackay's presence in Lisbon and a public lecture he delivered in Spanish on "Protestantism and Latin Culture" were reported in the press. The Protestants' "spirit is buoyant and in their ranks are distinguished members of the legal and medical professions...
...with an institution that stands for freedom of the mind and spirit . . . that has brought light into the world and uplifted men through the ages." ¶ "I feel God's presence in the music, the sermon, and in partaking of the Lord's Supper ... I could not worship regularly at home or elsewhere and gain the fellowship of worship I find at church." ¶"I go . . . because when I don't, I have an emptiness and restlessness inside...
...heaves his heaviest boulders at the old argument that Christian moral values can be maintained by the individual outside of any organized religion. "The experience of worship is something different in community from what it is in solitude . . . To say that one adheres to Christian values, and then to refuse to have any share in the institution that has preserved those values, and that today is struggling to make them ever more real among men, is hypocrisy indeed . . .We shall always need the free soul, the adventurer . . . his flashes of personal inspiration. But the greater the service he renders...
...slide in heelless straw sandals across floors . . . I believe the Mikado laughs when his ministers have a cabinet council." One Japanese item was no laughing matter for a Bostonian: "I was a bit aghast when one young woman called my attention to a temple as a remains of phallic worship; but what can one do? . . . One cannot quite ignore the foundations of society...