Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Celsus, Voltaire, Ingersoll, Paine et al. had the honesty to attack Christianity from outside the church. Tillich, Niebuhr, Bultmann and company promulgate their infidelity as "theologians" and "clergymen." Tillich's religious vaporings-a kind of 20th century Gnosticism-would rob Christianity of its Christ, its Bible, its God, its salvation and its sense. Tillich lights matches in the dark instead of opening the windows of his mind to let in the sun of righteousness. The miracle of the church is that it survives both open enemies like Voltaire and Trojan horses like Tillich...
...doubt as to the kind of attitude of certain of the Europeans." But last week, in the Rhodesias themselves, just when matters seemed to be getting out of hand, calmer views began to prevail. Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead, faced with strong criticism by clergymen and lawyers, withdrew his police-state Preventive Detention Act and set free about 50 Africans held without charge...
...bills accurately mirrored the feelings of many settlers, but strongly repelled others. The Salisbury Bar Council in emergency meeting condemned ten encroachments on political liberty in one of the bills. The Federation's top clergymen, including the Anglican Archbishop of Central Africa and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Salisbury, wrote a joint letter declaring: "We believe that no emergency or danger of emergency can justify injustice...
...Although the proportion of all other professions to the population has increased sharply, the ratio of clergymen to Americans was almost precisely the same in 1950 as it was a century before: 1.12 per 1,000 people...
Phthisic on the Farm. The telephone has done more than diplomats, clergymen or scientists to knit the world together. Taken for granted by kings and butchers alike, it is an indispensable companion that serves without favor or prejudice. It has reached into every civilized corner of the world-and often brought civilization with it. From its wires spring the words of history in the making, the chatter of daily life. English Novelist Arnold Bennett called it "the proudest and the most poetical achievement of the American people...