Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian Science, Faith Healing, prayer for the sick, modern science of health, New Thought, and the Emmanuel Movement will be among the subjects dealt with by Dr. Cabot in his lecture...
Last year the city of Copenhagen paid a graceful compliment to the Gothic intellect by holding a memorial exhibit of reliques, papers, letters, reminiscent of the life of Wolfgang Goethe. To reciprocate, the Prussian State Library recently opened a similar exhibit for a Scandinavian genius, Hans Christian Andersen. First editions of his books, illustrations for his earliest fairy tales, letters from Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Lamartine, De Vigny, the Grimm brothers and the Grand Duke of Weimar, ladies' favors, gentlemen's favors, and the souvenirs of princes, are shown there, and the German schoolchildren who went to gaze...
...sickly young shoemaker of Odense, in Fünen, Denmark, married when he was 20 a woman still younger than himself and was very well content when she bore him a son. They called the baby Hans Christian, and all three lived together, with little to eat, in a room which was also the home of their fine black...
...father the cobbler, who, like Hans Christian, was sick a good deal, died one day, and after that Frau Andersen had no time to think about Hans. He stopped going to school; instead, he built himself a toy theatre and sat about all day in the cobbler's shop, making clothes for marionettes or reading plays. Such conduct irritated the Dominie of Odense. He had no liking for Hans; what was more, the boy did not know his catechism. So he took Hans away and had him confirmed by a Bishop. After the ceremony he took him into...
Except for the fact that it supplies in its commandments a code for clean living that has been paraphrased by many health departments, the Christian Church, founded upon a rock not to be shaken by the windy babbling of false prophets, has had little to do with the shifting frontiers, the deciduous dogmas, of modern medicine. Thinking always of the cures performed by a man of Galilee, it has held apart from the contentions of surgeons and physicians, to interest itself rather in the works of those faith healers who work without stethescopes or education, trying to restore the sick...