Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries-especially Spain and Colombia. But in Russia, reported Moscow's red-bearded Rev. Yakov Zhidkov, Baptists are doing nicely. Each year, he said, the Russian Baptist Church gains 10,000 to 15,000 members. He added blandly: "Under the Russian constitution all religions have equal freedom of worship. The atheists have freedom too, and they have places where they teach atheism." Said the Rev. Alexander Kircun of Warsaw: "We have baptisms out of doors by the river and can preach as much as we want...
...voting to study the effects of mixed marriages with Roman Catholics and to strengthen Lutheran efforts in Latin America. But he was most pleased of all at the theses. "At Lund, Sweden, in 1947, Lutherans learned to march together," he said. "At Hannover, Germany, in 1952, they learned to worship together. At Minneapolis in 1957, they learned to think together...
There is a marked difference between most places of worship and a new synagogue designed by Architect Rau and dedicated fortnight ago at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Rau's austere approach to his task conformed with a striking text in the Jewish Prayer Book: "He who is walking by the way and rehearses what he has learnt, and breaks off from his rehearsing and says, 'How fine is that tree, how fine is that field,' him the Scripture regards as if he were guilty against himself." Rau decided against all distractions...
...polished tepees upon the side of the mountains," and proposed that the appropriation of $3.000,000 be sharply cut. New Jersey's Democrat Alfred D. Sieminski, a veteran of World War II and the Korean war, disagreed, crying that airmen "fight and die in aluminum planes. They can worship in aluminum if they can die in it, can they...
...contempt . . . And there is the paradox that because the great Church has not yet learned to agree sufficiently in the use of its corporate weapons of the Holy Spirit, the World Council of Churches offers to help the great Church to find itself and do its work of worship, witness and service, or indeed sets out to teach it its duty. It can do much as a family of God. It can do nothing as a church, since it has none of the corporate gifts of the Holy Spirit to the Church in its own right...