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...Boston's independent Methodist weekly, Zion's Herald, the Rev. ]. D. Townsend, pastor of the Providence (R.I.) Methodist Tabernacle, last week reminded his readers that "the story of Christianity is an almost unbroken chronicle of warfare...
...Townsend notes that there is a difference between "the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in the four Gospels," and "the practices of the organized Christian Church. These two have little in common besides their name." He traces the decline of the faith from the 4th Century, when it became a national religion under Constantine (who went forth "to slaughter his enemies inspired by the ecstatic vision of a blazing cross") through the Crusades (where "it had become firmly established that fire and rapine were acceptable means of propagating the faith") to the history of modern colonization ("unequal conflict...
Historian Townsend concludes: "There can be no peace" unless Christians become aware of "the wide chasm lying between their religious beliefs and practices...
Service Resumed. The first passenger vessel from the U.S. since early 1942 nosed its way between the coral reefs that line the channel into Hamilton, Bermuda. She was the Furness, Withy & Cox, Ltd.'s trim, flag-bedecked, 3,500-ton Fort Townsend, carrying 31 passengers and 830 tons of cargo...
...tradition of over 40 years came to an end this week when Charles Townsend Cepeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, elected to discontinue the series of Christmas readings he had inaugurated at the turn of the century...