Word: secularity
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...presses last fortnight printed and bound like any novel. Eleventh version in English since King James I's 54 scholars issued their revision in 1611, The American Bible is newly translated from the original texts, result of some six years of labor by five able savants.* Secular in appearance but convenient to the eye are its single-column pages, dialog in quotation marks, with subtitles and paragraph headings; verse numbers are set in the margins. Its advertised modernity caused captious critics to hunt up expressions which are not current in the U. S. A Chicago reader, for example, found...
...such a contingency is not likely to arise. Reason: exceptionally high reader interest among a highly select group of subscribers. Can TIME cite any periodical, religious or secular, that can match these figures of The Living Church? Of its individual subscribers (exclusive of agencies and single copy buyers), 27.6% voluntarily pay at "sustaining" rates of from $5 to $100 per year, instead of the regular $4 (lay) or $3.50 (clerical) rate. These sustaining subscribers contribute 41.8% of the total revenue received from individual subscriptions...
...endowment, predicted the speedy demise of the publication unless its friends gave help. Last week's Living Church revealed the progress of the week's drive-$80 had been received. Editor Frederic Cook Morehouse blamed the plight of The Living Church on advertisers' preference for secular magazines of larger circulation, on increased costs of publication since the war, and on financial losses to Morehouse Publishing Co. (Milwaukee) which had previously been able to pay Living Church deficits out of profits from the sale of religious books. Several years ago, the Living Church asked its high church friends...
...pastor shall absolutely not reveal confidences in court. Ecclesiastical and secular government must be kept separate." He quoted Martin Luther: " 'Since it is confessed, not to me, but to Christ, and since Christ keeps it secret, then must I also keep it secret and answer that I have heard nothing. What Christ has heard He can tell...
...composition must be for four or more voices, either with or without accompaniment, and the text may be either secular or sacred. If it is of the latter, the music must be of the general character of Mozart or Cherubini, as was preferred by Mr. Boott, of the class of 1881, when he awarded the prize. The prize is to be awarded only in case that a manuscript is submitted that is deserving of it, and the title page of the manuscript must be signed with an assumed name which is to be written on an envelope that contains...