Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Instead of gathering an assembly for public worship ... he was doing just the reverse. He was denouncing worship in any form and calling upon his hearers to desert such a practice. The ordinance did not apply to him. . . . The section relating to public worship upon the streets had reference to religious services of some kind and did not include the attempt of the defendant to show that for centuries the majority of us have been wrong. . . . Worship means any form of religious service, showing reverence for the Divine Being...
...succeeding century, was anything done about founding one. There existed in Washington no official church for state weddings or funerals or solemn thanksgiving or prayer in time of stress. The religion of the U. S. President was, and is, of no concern to the State: he could worship, get married, be buried with his own kind. But for the nation itself there ought to be a church, thought George Washington and many men after him, where heroes should be entombed and citizens make pilgrimage. It assuredly must be a great cathedral...
...great Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul on Mount Saint Alban, highest spot (400 ft.) in Washington. It was this Cathedral, they decided, which should fulfill George Washington's plan, become the U. S. Westminster Abbey. This week eminent Episcopalians and national officials were to gather to open for public worship the first sizable unit on Mount Saint Alban...
Rivalry between St. John the Divine and SS. Peter & Paul, would be of little import to most of the guests on Ascension Day. One might seek to become a "National Shrine," the other a "House of Worship for All People." But in the eyes of the national Episcopal Church they were the same as any of the other diocesan cathedrals in the land...
...name Christophe, and he grows up to be a simple boy after the whole town's heart. Goundran, his fisherman godfather, shows him how to sail, to fish. Eusebe, the lecherous old drunken cobbler, tells him fairy tales. Especially does half-witted Anfos, his father's apprentice, worship him, seem to recognize some mystery about the boy. But to his little brother Loup and his cousin Jan he is just a playmate and friend. Now & then something happens to change their minds. At the sight of suffering, Christophe is occasionally overwhelmed with an agony of pity. Once, when...