Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastern Orthodox view that the Church, established and immutably fixed at seven ecumenical councils during the first eight centuries, is an objectively divine institution. An opposite view, held by Congregationalists, Methodists and other democratic communions, is that the Church originated and consists essentially in living people banded together for worship, upon whom tradition can lay no imperative bonds and from whom church organization draws its significance and changes in form. Between these views, static and dynamic, embracing them both, is the Anglican view that the Church is an institution and a congregation taken together, a living organism...
Similarly, the committee on sacraments simply recommended "unity with diversity" for the universal Church. "We can unite in worship, we cannot unite in definition. . . . Each worshiper will receive the sacrament with the meaning that he himself attaches...
...alarming rate, must seem a grievous thing demanding immediate attention from those still in the fold. . . . Take away the materialistic character of the shekels needed for the sanctuary. Do not use such terms as 'assessments,' taxes' and 'per capita rates.' Merge money matters into acts of spiritual worship and service...
...these statistics mattered little beside the fact that this Salon had been done by Pierre Patou in three shades of soft grey Pyrenees marble, with strange, geometric, golden glass lighting by Lalique. On Sunday Mr. Herrick found that he might worship in a chapel, two stories high, done with emboine panels upon lemonwood by Nelson et Simon, who had placed upon the altar an ultra-modern crucifix in molded glass, blazing from concealed lamps...
...vainly waited a year for a second meeting, she marries Archie Roxby, bears him a son, becomes his widow. At home again, Mary Hansyke goes into her uncle's shipyards, watches the tall clippers she has built swing through the harbor of Danesacre to the wide sea; her worship of lovely ships is a more compelling idolatry than that which she offers her second husband, Hugh Hervey. She loves him deeply, but, since love and ship-building touch in her the same depths, ship-building more perfectly satisfies her sense of command. Just after her marriage...