A Community Church: The Story of a Minister's Experience which Led Him from the Church Militant to the Church DemocraticHoughton Mifflin, 1919 - 387 pages |
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... trustee in a church , but seldom attends the meetings lest his great wealth might embarrass his fellow trustees . Another such friend is one of the best and richest men in New York City , a man whose character is a national asset . He ...
... trustee in a church , but seldom attends the meetings lest his great wealth might embarrass his fellow trustees . Another such friend is one of the best and richest men in New York City , a man whose character is a national asset . He ...
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... they decided to use other methods . Almost all the trustees resigned in a body and some of them withdrew their contributions , thus using money as a club to compel the congregation to yield 25 CAN A MINISTER BE HONEST ?
... they decided to use other methods . Almost all the trustees resigned in a body and some of them withdrew their contributions , thus using money as a club to compel the congregation to yield 25 CAN A MINISTER BE HONEST ?
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... trustees , who represented ideals more in accord with their own and who conducted the financial work of the church with new , democratic , and efficient methods . What is still more important , they showed to the old trustees a ...
... trustees , who represented ideals more in accord with their own and who conducted the financial work of the church with new , democratic , and efficient methods . What is still more important , they showed to the old trustees a ...
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... trustees and as superintendents of the Sunday - school . But by an appeal to public opinion I could have easily won . No man had a better cause or a finer chance to win success for it . But how about the Christian cause ? My major ...
... trustees and as superintendents of the Sunday - school . But by an appeal to public opinion I could have easily won . No man had a better cause or a finer chance to win success for it . But how about the Christian cause ? My major ...
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... trustees , we are deluged by an avalanche of editorials on the beauty and importance of " tact . " They are so uniform in tenor as to make one feel they are " inspired , " and so they are . Now all of us understand the beauty of " tact ...
... trustees , we are deluged by an avalanche of editorials on the beauty and importance of " tact . " They are so uniform in tenor as to make one feel they are " inspired , " and so they are . Now all of us understand the beauty of " tact ...
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