Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Garvey's Theory: Civilization began among the Negroes (the Cush-ites, from whom the Egyptians, Phoenicians and Greeks acquired culture) . " The earliest Ethiopians were the first to worship according to the present belief." There is historical corroboration for the statement that Christ was black, or rather that His ancestry included all races...
...often find the belief among concert performers that they are in some peculiar rapport with their audiences, that they can sense instinctively the state of mind of their audiences toward them and that they draw inspiration in a more or less mystical manner from sympathy and discouragement from coldness. Orators and actors hold similar notions. With most these beliefs are vague. Not so with Rubinstein. He has quite a definite theory of telepathy between himself and his audiences. He always selects some person or several persons in the audience to play to. He does not need to see these chosen...
...both cases it might very well be urged that the sanctity of the purpose sanctified the means. But purposes and objects are only relatively noble. There are intelligent people who believe in war as a spiritual Katharsis and who have held to that belief in spite of the years 1914 to 1918. And there are intelligent people who believe in communism and atheism and easy divorce and a num-ber of other creeds and panaceas which the Congregational and Baptist Churches would hardly countenance. If the teaching of one faith is justifiable, the teaching of any faith is justifiable...
Thus Mr. Gompers refutes the belief, held by many Americans, that organized Labor has points in common with Reds. " American Labor is evolutionary and constructive. It declines to adopt any of the shibboleths or symbols of revolutionary movements...
...good old days" of the Bible Baptists, members of this denomination held that only persons baptized by immersion were Christians, because immersion was the New Testament mode of baptism. The Southern Baptists still hold to this belief, and refuse to cooperate with any other Protestant denominations in the Federal Council of Churches. The Northern Baptists cooperate, but have a communion service which is closed to all Christians except those who have been immersed. Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, New York, has declared for the " open church "-i. e., receiving members from other communions without immersion. Along...