Word: cana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the week was over two events, one in Europe, the other in Can ada, one a thing of spirit, the other of flesh and blood, had served to unify Cana dian opinion. One brought into the fold Canada's dissident minority, the 2,500,000 French Catholics of the Province of Que bec. The news which fired them was the entrance of pagan Russia into Catholic Poland, the leaguing together of Satan's archangels, J. Stalin with A. Hitler...
...Caine was not much impressed by gospel accounts of the Virgin Birth, by some of Christ's miracles, nor by all the recorded circumstances of the Resurrection. Some of his observations sound as though written from a British club window. Of 'Jesus changing water into wine at Cana he fumed: "A perfectly shocking story: I simply do not believe it." Of the last chapter of John, with its story of the disciples fishing, and its "inept" last verse,† Hall Caine snorted: "Is there any good reason why I should not say, what I strongly feel, that this...