Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absolutely fair for a month or so? Why do you always make the President's statements very wise and important when we realize that they are seldom his own and then throw ridicule at Mr. Borah, who is foolish enough to try and be a politician and a Christian too, and who, of course, is barred from the Presidency because he is too big to let any group control...
...President shook hands with 1,220 citizens in 27 minutes. Some were Women's Christian Temperance Unionists; the rest, insurance-sellers...
Atheist Editor Ernest V. Sterry of the Christian Enquirer went to jail at Toronto last week, as he expected he would do when he called God "an irate old party," "this touchy Jehovah"; snorted at His preference "for roast cutlet to that of boiled cabbage" (competitive sacrifices of Abel and Cain), "His whims, freaks and fancies," "His frenzied, megalomaniac boastings." This constitutes blasphemous, indecent and profane libel against the Christian religion and the Bible, said Crown Attorney (prosecutor) E. J. Murphy of Toronto, at last week's preliminary trial. He would not have been so provoked if Editor Sterry...
...Hearst-Editor Arthur Brisbane could exclaim: "The rejection of the treaty is largely a triumph for Christian missionaries. He did so ignorantly here. The only missionary interests in Turkey urged ratification of the treaty...
...Bishop of Exeter: "The Chinese should have been taught still to reverence the Confucian civilization, blending it with the Christian faith, much as Greek philosophy was incorporated with Christianity at the beginning of our era. ... At present the 'converted' Chinese regard civilization as a thing purely material. . . . For this false and dangerous view England must accept her share of blame...