Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moros. Senator Hadjib Butu, representing Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago (where Moros predominate), also visited Oracle Thompson. He promised to introduce him to the Sultan of Sulu when he traveled southward; he told how Mohammedan Moros preferred U. S. rule to that of Christian Filipinos. Said Senator Butu: "The situation we face reminds me of the story of Joseph and his brethren in your Bible. The Moro looks up to the American as his father and upon the Filipino as his brother. Because of the love between Joseph and his father, his brothers threw him into a pit and left...
...building stood adjacent to a mosque. Local Moslems took council. Were shadowy Christian pie-throwers to shuffle oversize feet, thumb noses, within nine paces of the shrine of Allah? Were milk-faced movie harlots to pervert the yearnings of Mohammedans for the swart-skinned houris of Paradise...
...Senator bellows biblically in the Bryan-country, who never says his prayers in secret. But pietist-for-politics-only would be a most inadequate description of William E. Sweet, onetime Governor of Colorado, onetime banker, now candidate for the U. S. Senate, backed by farmers, laborers. Said the Christian Century...
...While there are many nominal church members in the United States senate, they are mostly conservative and the few liberals in the senate are, almost without exception, estranged from the church. It would be a happy experience for the nation to have a sound Christian radical of Governor Sweet's type in the senate. We understand that Judge Florence Allen is also running for the senate in Ohio, She incarnates the same type of Christian idealism as Governor Sweet. It would be cause for rejoicing if two such church members could have the opportunity of teaching America what Christian...
...Bicknell Young is a Christian Science lecturer and teacher...