Word: worshipers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Union. All powers not specifically granted the Union would be retained by each state: the state could be socialist or capitalist, a republic like the U. S., a monarchy like Britain. But each would have to conform to a Bill of Rights, grant freedom of speech, of worship, of the press, the right to peaceful assembly...
...supplementary form of worship "so directed and conducted that its relevance to life and to men's actual needs is evident." The C. L. I. D. plans soon to publish a service book containing socially-conscious Scripture readings, hymns, prayers. Much applauded was a social creed presented by George Frederick Wiemann, a retired coffee importer of Newtown, Conn. Excerpts...
...vigorous spirituality in thought and action is the only sure foundation for real patriotism and personal peace and happiness. In these days there is an alarming increase in the number of young men who have no knowledge of God and his eternal law, of the necessity of religious worship and discipline, and of the sure means provided by God for their spiritual growth and security. How shall they know if they are not taught, and by whom shall they be taught if not by an able and zealous chaplain...
Japan's grave-faced Emperor Hirohito last week wrapped himself in a silken robe embroidered with the sacred Paulownia blossom and stepped into the innermost sanctuary of the Imperial Palace to worship his mythological ancestress, the Sun Goddess, celebrating the ascension to the throne 2,601 years ago of his lineal ancestor, the great Emperor Jimmu. Aside from the fact, of no great importance, that there is no historical evidence that Jimmu ever existed, there was a striking difference between the two ceremonies 2.601 years apart: whereas Jimmu had given thanks to the Sun Goddess after his conquest...
...etched bloated priests abusing women and embracing money bags, barely escaped the ire of the Inquisition by labeling them with trite moral maxims. On the walls of churches he gave angels the faces of well-known prostitutes, growling as he did so: "I will cause the faithful to worship vice." He painted bag-bellied Queen Maria Luisa as a superannuated barmaid, made her portraits glow with the oily iridescence of decay. When he drew the peasants, soldiers, beggars and trollops who swarmed in Madrid's dusty streets, he was less subtle, but no less furious. When, on the bloody...