Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...version of this pre-Christian manifesto prudently demands that before ordering his house painted the modern Roman must submit the color of his choice for approval by the municipal authorities. Flamboyant taste in paint will be sharply curbed according to despatches...
Comeback? With Soviet gold, Mongol troops and Russian officers, General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Christian Bolshevist War Lord,'" recently driven from Peking (TIME, April 12) was last week reported preparing a drive from Siberia on his native land. Then quite suddenly the occidental press discovered the General in Berlin. Perhaps he was only buying peanuts...
...England sermon, delivered in thanksgiving for the fall of Montreal, says of Amherst that "the renowned general is worthy of that most honorable of titles, the Christian hero; for he loves his enemies and while he subdues them he makes them happy. He acts the general, the Briton, the conqueror and the Christian." From his own correspondence, however, it appears that the Indians were not among the enemies loved and made happy by Amherst. He held them in supreme contempt. He directed a subordinate: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets...
Aside from the above, may I suggest in view of the fact that as one ascends the beautiful marble steps of Widener and views the spectacle of the person and the Christian War God on the right and on the left why not erect a charcters "The God of Peace" and thereby keep the faith with these who sleep on Flooders Field," since we went into the World War "to end a war". "The God of Peace" and thereby "keep the faith with these who sleep on Flanders Field," since we went into the World...
...hell-etic and not attending church services, but who knows that you won't follow the steps which I and other foreigners were bound to take, simply because you are a ministerial student? Do you know so many foreign students who came to this country to prepare for the Christian Ministries, are leaving churches and Christianity in this country, and partly revolting against the ethical monopoly of Christianity? I am interested in watching how you react when you come to this country...