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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Building Up Your Congregation warns its readers of "the dangerous dignity of church boards." The board members of churches, he says, "seem to forget that according to the New Testament, thousands of followers were attracted to Christ by what would today be considered undignified miracles-undignified acts of healing. Can you imagine the average church board being asked to approve such miracles as the turning of water into wine, or feeding the multitude on two fishes and five loaves of bread?" One of the chief weaknesses of church boards, according to Adman Pleuthner, is that they have too many bankers...
Many a Christian has teased his conscience with the question: What would happen if Christians guided their day-today lives by continually asking themselves, "What would Jesus do?" In Topeka, Kans. in 1896, Congregational Minister Charles Sheldon wrote a novel in which, for a year, various members of the congregation of a Midwest church tried to do just that. Author Sheldon's conclusions: the Christ-conscious turn-of-the-century man would lend a helping hand to the poor, campaign against the consumption of alcohol and tobacco, remain staunchly pacifist at whatever cost. Sheldon's In His Steps...
Blood will be collected from student donors at Phillips Brooks House beginning at 12 noon today. The collection center will be open through Friday from 12 noon until...
Colored by years and events, the editors who worked with him today remember FDR variously as "a cocky, conceited chap with a great name but nothing much else," the best "mixer of claret punch for the semi-annual initiations of new editors," an "energetic, resourceful, and independent" person, and a man with "remarkable capacity for dealing genially with people...
...start of his junior year, FDR was elected one of the two assistant managing editors and given charge of the paper two nights a week. The papers of that period were dull and routine by the standards of today, and the papers which Roosevelt supervised appeared no different from the rest...