Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven last week met a body of venerable prelates who boldly assert that they are not Protestants, although they refuse to recognize that the Pope is anything more than a pompous sort of Bishop; who quietly deny that they are Roman Catholics, although they use in their worship all the ancient magnificence of phrase, splendors of scarlet and black and gold, the aspiring incense, the candles, gongs and musical invocations of the Mother of Christ that are the Church's heritage from Rome. They are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, yet they called their meeting "the first Anglo...
...Chapel is crowded, and is crowded voluntarily, and that Professor Perry appears to be sensibly proud of the fact that the men are there because they want to be." What an excellent day it will be when someone can say of Yale undergraduates that they go to Chapel to worship; that they are there because they want to be. Yale Daily News...
...action at Dartmouth recalls a legend. In 1790, the College Hall being in frightful shape, the undergraduates visited that place of worship by night and ripped it asunder. None was disciplined, it being hinted that the President and trustees were secretly delighted. But a new chapel arose, "without a chimney and never profaned by a stove...
...persons of what degree soever, residing at College, and all undergraduates whether dwelling in the College or in the town shall constantly and seasonably attend the worship of God in the hall morning and evening...
Professor Clifford, a leader in the fight for evolution, was quoted as saying that men made and unmade gods, that God is but the glorification of Man. Dr. Straton tried to show that this creed results in an idolatrous worship of man; the worship of man by himself as God, and a degeneration of morals such as we saw resulting in the fall of the old Roman Empire...