Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, "War Lord of Central China," rumored ally of Chang Hsueh-liang in capturing Peking, did not enter the city last week. The original garrison, adherent to the "Christian" Super -Tuchun, Feng Yu-hsiang, continued in headlong flight to Kalgan, hotly pursued...
...Joseph Smith's Latter Day Saints (Mormons) today number but 625,160 in the U. S. Of Mary Baker Glover Eddy's Christian Science Churches in the U. S. there are 1,879. In the U. S. alone there are over 9,000,000 Methodists, Wesleyans...
...Union Theological Seminary of Manhattan is famed, undominated by any Christian denomination, facultied by men of eminence. It prepares independent young men to become ministers...
...said that no other divine in the U. S. is personally beloved by so many people of intelligence. He speaks with sparkling wit, persuasive earnestness. Once Dean Brown of Yale, hunting for a superlative, termed him "the greatest living Christian...
...facts of Mr. Lewis' offense are simple. Standing on the rostrum of the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church, he took his watch out of his pocket with a theatrical gesture and laid it on the prayer desk before him. It was an accurate watch, he said. He would give God ten minutes precisely. . . ten minutes to demonstrate that He existed by striking him, Sinclair Lewis, author, dead where he stood. The people in the Linwood Boulevard Christian Church waited patiently. In the Independence Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church a few blocks away, a "golden wedding choir" (men and women who had been...