Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While their leader floated overhead in a red autogiro, 5,000 black & white followers of Negro Cultist Major J. "Father" Divine (TIME, Dec. 25) marched and countermarched across Manhattan's sunny Harlem on their way to Easter worship. At the head of the procession a small girl carried a placard on which was a picture of Divine and the words: HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY. A banner tied to Divine's autogiro answered in red letters: PEACE TO THE WORLD-FATHER DIVINE'S MISSION. Truck-mounted hands moved slowly forward, playing jazz. The marchers sang...
Sweat beaded the folded hands of Argentine farmers in their pews. Sweat wilted the collar of the priest in the sanctuary. In an Indian summer hot beyond measure, the villagers of San Luis were trying to worship God. Father Juan Guerrera blessed the bread and wine. The villagers trailed forward to the altar rail to receive the Communion...
...proposed that occasionally the pastors, choir directors and organists of a town, or in districts of cities, make plans to mass the choirs of the several churches and meet together in a community service of hymn worship. . . . Hymns of spiritual power and tested worth should be chosen. While the choirs may lead, all the people present should be instructed to join in the festival hymns. . . . Dignity, strength and power may be brought to the service if it closes with the noble strains of the 'Te Deum,' a confession of faith as well as an ascription of praise...
Last week these observations on hymns were made public by 79-year-old Dr. Wilbur Patterson Thirkield, retired Methodist bishop and chairman of the Commission on Worship of the Federal Council of Churches. Onetime president of Gammon Theological Seminary (Atlanta) and of Howard University (Negro, in Washington), Bishop Thirkield is a doughty crusader against bad hymns and gory ones. Aware that the average congregation sings only 25 different hymns a year, Bishop Thirkield has drawn up two sample types of Hymn Festivals which include a great variety of words and music, each identified with a central theme. The Militant, Conquering...
...their first president, General Alexander Macdougall, a brisk, decisive Scotch merchant who earlier in his life had piled up a small fortune privateering. Without waiting to obtain a charter (which was not granted until seven years later), the bank soon opened for business, having duly "qualified before his Worship, the Mayor...