Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whilst appreciating the honor TIME [Aug. 31] bestowed in featuring the teaching of the British Israel World Federation . . . I would like to correct the impression made by the use of the word "cult." As the Oxford Dictionary defines this as a "system of religious worship," the federation pleads "not guilty," for it is an interdenominational organization; it has no church status ... It is an organization ... of all the recognized Christian denominations . . . We believe in the Second Coming and the establishment of His Kingdom on Earth [and] in the continuity throughout history of the whole House of Israel from whom...
...surprising sameness of outlook and political thinking. President Eisenhower's policy of "gradualism," or of progressive conservatism, is, in my opinion, exactly the mood of the parts of the country I visited. In normally Democratic country such as northern Idaho and Montana, they don't cheer or worship him, but during the entire trip, only two people expressed to me strong feelings against Ike personally. The great preponderance of people I met did not even suggest that it was still too early to form an opinion on Ike. They like him all right...
...with the full backing of the Peruvian government. Townsend had promised to use the Catholic version of the Bible in his religion course, and the government would increase its financial aid to the Church's own jungle missions. Said Townsend: "Of course, when I see a jungle Indian worshiping a boa constrictor, I want to teach him to worship the Lord instead...
...steadily seething arguments within the Roman Catholic Church is over the question of tolerance. Is the Spanish church right, for instance, in insisting on curtailing the freedom of Protestants for missionary work and public worship...
...from these minor divertissements, there are two things that lend this slow-paced, obvious picture some fun. One is the young playwright and his literary labor pains, written here & there with a real touch of wit. As the egocentric fellow in search of a wife who will thrill him, worship him, and make about $75 a week, Newcomer Tom Morton is effective, in a junior-Brando sort of way. The other redeeming feature is Tallulah Bankhead, as the star for whom Playwright Morton is trying to build a vehicle. She plays a bowdlerized version of herself, fancying herself demure...