Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anyone who tries to be a Christian and a prohibitionist must lead a double life. I commend that sentence to the gentlemen from Georgia [Mr. Upshaw] and Texas [Mr. Blanton]. Truth crushed to earth will rise again...
...have been in 85% of all the counties in this country and I can tell you the people have the idea that their capital city belongs to them and not to the proprietors of movie theatres and baseball parks. The Christian people of this country demand protection of their right to one day of quiet to carry on their forms of worship. They demand protection against people who have no regard for decency or the laws of God or man. . . . And as to the Rotary clubs and the Kiwanis and Lions and Elks that you say are against this bill?...
Danger. An amendment to the Constitution to make the U. S. a legally Christian country and to authorize punitive and discriminating legislation against people of other religious faiths was penned by William Jennings Bryan before he died, according to his old friend, Playwright Augustus Thomas.* "I saw the actual wording of the amendment," said Playwright Thomas, "and gave it as my opinion that such an amendment, if passed by Congress, might secure sufficient support from Fundamentalist states, south and west, to become ratified...
Applause. World-traveler, world-organizer, Christian statesman John R. Mott? approached last week the Continent of Australia. Meanwhile reports of his brief stop-over in Japan reached the U. S. It was learned that never had he been so warmly welcomed. Daily papers hung upon his words?they were words of optimism for the world and Christianity. Crowds clattered to his few public appearances. Delegations solemnized "ave's" and "vale's." Freedom of cities was bestowed upon him. And upon him was bestowed the "Freedom of the Empire." (For another view of Christianity in Nippon, see JAPAN...
Mendelssohn will be Professor Hill's subject in Music 3 this morning in the Music Building at 12 o'clock. Again 1 must propose an alternative to myself. Professor Conant is lecturing in Fine Arts 3a at the same time in Robinson Hall on "The Derivation of the Christian Church." I have always had an idea that many architectural points in a Christian church could be traced back to nature worship of the crudest sort I would like to know about the origin of a church steeple, for instance...