Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faulty copies of the Christian Science gospel, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, came up for auction sale in Manhattan last week. It was a first (1875) edition and contained many printer's errors. Mary Baker Eddy knew of 66. Economical, she disliked reprinting the whole volume; honest she listed the errata on a separate leaf. Because one of these errata leaves was in the book offered for sale last week...
...international problems the annual Northfield Student Conference will be held at East Northfield, Massachusetts from June 15 to 23. These Conferences are conducted by the New England Field Council which represents the Student Associations of New England, five state committees and the National Council of Young Men's Christian Associations...
This year marks the semi-centennial of the Student Christian Movement, and on the program at Northfield there will be special features devoted to the recognition of this milestone which is being passed. In this way it was believed very appropriate to hold the semi-centennial conference at Northfield where 41 years ago under the leadership of Dwight Moody the first student conference was held...
...whole tone of the new Lampoon, however, is not ironic but kindly. It beams with benevolence, like the Christian Science Monitor. It is the Pickwick among college funny papers; a smiling old philanthropist, with a fondness for old friends, old wine and old jokes. Only at intervals in this issue will the reader cut himself on the razor edge of real wit. There is a paragraph in the south-west corner of page 232 which would have made F. P. A. very happy had he thought of it. The parody of the sainted Bruce Barton on page 237 is clean...
Last week's Christian Century reported the novel method by which 60 plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him. 'Midst much giggling and chaffing they passed tape measures about one another's waists. Total was 4,114 inches, an average of 68.5666 inches per matron. Unabashed, they gathered together a cent for each girth-inch; gave the $41.14 to their parson...