Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt little Leeds has been brought up in the "Christian" doctrine of "Too Proud to Fight." Still perhaps I am too hard on him. I have known "scouts" who later became manly men; but as "scouts" they certainly do not belong under "Army...
...workingmen, especially union men, belong to churches than do professional and business men. To do this he prepared a table showing the proportions of different men groups in Chicago's total men population and in Chicago's Church rosters. His table and conclusions he printed last week in The Christian, Disciples of Christ magazine...
Those orthodox Christian Scientists who read the New York World were vexed to discover great spaces in one of that newspaper's last week's editions given over to Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson. To orthodox Christian Scientists Mrs. Stetson, for 35 years the close friend and co-worker of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, has been a renegade, a pariah. In 1909 they expelled her from their church, because they, considered her extensions of their Leader's teachings subversive to those theories. Since then she has been a many-barbed thorn in their flesh, and lately, since...
...first husband. When the boy was nine years old, she was invalid and unable to prevent his being sent to the west by Dr. Patterson, her second husband. Thirty years later she met her son. He was a worldling, father of a family, unamenable to her teachings. Christian Scientists profess not to know his later history. If living, he is now 83 years...
...last week from London came gossipy reports of the jokes he told during his recent visit there. Once a Negro preacher introduced him to his Negro congregation as "a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." Once a woman parishioner, disagreeing with him, shouted angrily: "I am a Christian woman which it is evident...