Word: church
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt left Washington for Hyde Park in time for the first snow of the season. Through sleet and rain he drove to church, stayed to preside as senior warden at a vestryman's meeting. Home to Uvalde on the windswept Texas plains went Vice President John Nance Garner, to a State that has been fussing about a proposed special session of its Legislature, and an appalling murder down at Comanche.* Back to his old Kentucky home (Paducah) went Senate Leader Alben Barkley...
...Thomas, Richard Frankensteen, et al. No strong man, 80-year-old Mr. Dickinson tried none of the around-the-clock, tire-'em-out tactics which ex-Governor Frank Murphy used to apply to stubborn negotiators. As though he were teaching his Bible class in the Center Eaton Methodist Church near Charlotte, Mich., Luren Dickinson piped: ". . . If you have faith, and apply the Golden Rule, you can get together." For two hours his pupils did unto each other as they had been done by for weeks, swapping acrimonies and getting nowhere. The Governor pared his nails, enjoined his guests...
From a censer swung by a thurifer, the sweet smoke of incense coiled heavily into the church. In a chasuble of blue and gold, the church's Pastor Arthur Carl Piepkorn stood at the epistle side of the altar. At the gospel side, flanked by taper bearers and the thurifer, Pastor Robert Mohrhardt chanted: "Make not My Father's house an house of merchandise...
Except for the fact that it was in English, this service one day last week, in Cleveland's Faith Lutheran Church, much resembled a Roman Catholic Mass. It was Martin Luther's Formula Missae et Communionis, a liturgical service which the great Reformer instituted in 1523. To most U. S. Lutherans, more averse to incense, tapers and vestments than Luther was, this Mass might have seemed abhorrent-although its language still informs the Lutheran Common Service...
...will hold another meeting at the Old South Church...