Word: secularizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some city churches already have daily vacation Bible schools for the summer months. The Gary plan provides a definite time for religious instruction. The parochial schools of the Roman Catholics provide religious and secular instruction. The Protestants have no national scheme of combining these two fields of instruction...
There is great interest at the present time in questions touching the relationship between Science and Religion. Even the secular newspapers are taking it up. In the New York World, for example, recently there was a strong editorial on "Science's Olive Branch to Religion." The editor of The World took up the utterances of Dr. Charles Steinmetz on Science and Religion...
...Miller Collection are Roman and Byzantine diptychs, Carolingian and Romanesque book covers and casket panels, and Gothic utensils, both ecclesiastical and secular. Specimens of this class go back as far as the fourth century, from which is the consular diptych of Rufus Probianus. There are also diptychs of Flavius Asturius (fifth century), Areobindus (sixth century), the fifth century Byzantine diptych of an archangel in the British Museum, the front cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (ninth century), the South Kensington plate of Mary between Isaiah and Melchisedek (ninth century), a tenth century Holy Water vessel from Milan Cathedral...
...University a fund, the annual income of which was to be awarded to the member of the University writing the best composition in concerted choral music. The composition must be for four or more voices, and may be either with or without accompaniment, the text being either secular or sacred, as the composer prefers. Mr. Boot's bequest recommends that, if the music be of a sacred character, the type shown in Cherubini and Mozart be followed...
...composition must be written in four voices, for chorus, with or without solo voices, and with organ or piano accompaniment; and the time required for its performance must not exceed six minutes. The words may be either English or Latin, religious or secular, original or selected. A prize will be awarded only in case a composition is submitted which fulfills the requirements of the Committee. It was Mr. Boott's desire that the type of music exemplified in Cherubini and Mozart should be followed...