Word: christe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most people have made up their minds one way or another about the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. Yet so potent is the subject that shrewd Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday has chosen it as the main theme of his latest barnstorming tour. In Elyria, Ohio, he gospel-shouted last week: "God made Adam and Eve without human agencies. So he certainly could create Jesus in a supernatural manner...
...scurrilous correspondent of the wet Chicago Tribune pretended that the Summits Pontifex also said, last week, "We consider the Volstead Act immoral and contrary to the laws of Christ." Although the Savior and His disciples and the Virgin Mary did, indeed, all drink wine, it is impossible that the discreet Holy Father could have made such a remark within hearing of the world press...
...entering St. Peter's that he would not appear upon the balcony to bless the kneelers. However 200,000 Italians shouting "Il Papa! Il Papa!" in the rain are a powerful inducement, especially when they keep it up for four solid hours. Relenting at last, the vicar of Christ briefly appeared and adequately blessed the sopping flock, but he did not impart the especially potent blessing "Urbi et Orbi!" ("to the city and to the world...
...over the U. S. Many an editor wanted to publish his face. But they had none of his photographs. Therefore they did the next best thing and published pictures of the man he assailed-Bishop Francis John McConnell. newly elected President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, successor to the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman (TIME...
...short howls of mournful hopelessness. A long rattling crescendo of protesting crashes, And a great voice shrieking like a lunatic with the Christ bug, And one eager eye squinting into the distance, searching out the red, the yellow, the cool green signal lights. The song of the freight is the moan and the broken cry of a woman dying in a train wreck, The clear sharp challenge hurled at the moon by a lonely defiant farm-dog, A nocturne in an unknown key torn by the wind from the throat of a steam whistle in a nightmare, . . . An all-metal...