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...Council, representing 23 U. S. and Canadian churches. The council's report bore out the familiar U. S. dogma that country folk are more religious than city people; churches with rural constituents showed the greatest increase in giving. Highest per cent gains were in the Church of the Brethren, 16%, and the Church of the Nazarene, 13%. The Southern Baptists gave $2,300.120 more than the year before, an 8% increase. Next biggest dollar gain was in the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.-$2,158,208, a 5% rise...
...liking German aristocrats have for the whole Nazi claptrap of neopaganism and "pure race." The issue of the Jews is a separate issue, and neither the Dahlem aristocrats nor their pastor have shown themselves pro-Semitic, if anything the reverse. In the fiery prisoner-pastor's words: "Dear brethren, the reason is easily given: the Jews brought the Christ of God to the Cross...
...Church of the Plymouth Brethren has repeatedly split over the question of baptism: whether it should be in running water or calm, forward or backward, with one plunge or three...
...River Brethren have two branches, the One-Mode holding that, in their foot-washing ritual, the same person should wash and dry the feet, while the Two-Mode believes that one should wash, another...
When a colonial ruler like General Nogues finds it necessary thus to explain to natives that his home Government is not split and his white brethren are really with him, significant fat is obviously on the fire. To see it sputter, Mrs. Anne O'Hare Mc-Cormick of the New York Times touched at Algiers last week, and upon her ever sympathetic shoulder French colonists who are bearing the white man's burden in North Africa in effect sobbed their fears...