Word: churchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same right as any League of Nations member to enter objections to any change in Britain's mandate over the Holy Land. Among 8,500 telegraphing protestants urging U.S. pressure on Britain to keep Palestine open to Jewish immigration were Representatives and Senators, five Governors, many Protestant churchmen, New York City's Council, prominent labor leaders, hundreds of Zionists, numerous literary and political figures...
Despite political disorder, widespread paganism and actual persecution, the at titude of European churchmen is not one of defeatism but, according to Professor Horton, "of courage, hope and active service of God and man - service which necessarily refuses to define its objectives very far in advance, since the whole surface of European life is cracking and sinking under foot like a thawing ice floe, but which receives its orders day by day from God, who alone knows what will be required of his servants by tomorrow!" Since the Russian Orthodox Church, before the War, was deepest bogged in reaction...
...small, predominantly Roman Catholic town of Antigonish in Nova Scotia, churchmen of three faiths last week made a great and happy to-do over cooperatives. At Antigonish's small Roman Catholic St. Francis Xavier University were 1,000 people-among them 250 clergymen and educators from the U. S.-to attend a Rural and Industrial Conference, to behold how the 100% Christian economics of cooperatives had put the whole region on its feet...
...thoughtful U. S. churchmen know many a U. S. cult has prospered by: 1) promising, and to some extent producing visible results here & now; 2) spreading doctrines which seem more plausible more understandable, than those of the established churches. A cult which has done well on this broad basis is one known simply as Unity. One of its high priestesses, a well-dressed, pleasant-faced woman named Mrs. Georgiana Tree West announced last week in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that she had incorporated a new Unity Center in that city, was hunting a permanent location...
...increase in the salaries of 75% of the church's pastors ("to raise them to the level of bricklayers'"), called for a vote on his plan to give the 6,000 Congregational and Christian churches in the U. S. a delegate to the council. Thereupon sober churchmen resorted to a mediator. They succeeded in suppressing a sharp reply to Mr. Babson, which had been printed for distribution to the delegates, and winning from Mr. Babson a promise that he would "do nothing and say nothing which will disrupt the good-will of this gathering...