Word: worshipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listeners accompanied him with clapping hands and stamping feet. They had gathered, as they did three times a week, in their curtained store-front church to worship God and seek the kingdom of heaven. Detroit's Home Missionaries Gospel Mission is typical of nearly 2,000 store-front congregations in the Detroit area, and of uncounted thousands across the land...
...Methodist Church . . .used to be full of Pentecostal fire, and [its] public worship was filled with shouts of 'Amen' and 'Hallelujah.' Now the Nazarene and Pentecostal preachers often say that if the Methodists were as Pentecostal as they used to be, they would be glad to be Methodists...
...Wealth & Worship. "The interconnection," says Orwell, "between sadism, masochism, success-worship, power-worship, nationalism and totalitarianism is a huge subject whose edges have barely been scratched...
...great actions in the yearly battle for food, Gus will putter about his fruit trees. He likes to look off east toward the Evangelical church, where, as a boy, during the interminable sermons, he traded jackknives behind the pews, and where rain, snow or shine the Kuesters still worship every Sunday. He likes to see the pine-and cedar-sheltered church graveyard, a tranquil reminder that the life which the earth gives must in the end return to the earth. There two generations of his neighbors and family are buried...
...This is the core of the Christian faith; and no matter how deeply divided from each other Christians may be in matters of worship and order, in this central conviction they are united. Over large areas of its spiritual life the world has forgotten it. Yet the faith lives...