Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slavery. The temporary slavery commission reported that slavery is practically wiped out except in the Mohammedan countries of the East. A peonage system of approaching it exiss in parts of Latin America. Abyssinia is the Christian country where it is still practiced, but progress has been made there towards its abolition. Slave raiding is rare except on the borders of the Sahara Desert. In Arabia many girls making pilgrimages from the East are seized and enslaved...
PERSEUS OR OF DRAGONS?H. P. Scott Stokes?Button ($1.00). This latest volume in the Today and Tomorrow Series is perhaps the lightest, but not the least pleasing. It could hardly be called an exhaustive discourse on all dragons, taking up only the early Greek, early Christian, mediaeval and ancient Egyptian species and their variants. But it does succeed in classifying these so that they may be readily recognized if met. Draconist Stokes does not really believe there ever were any dragons. He does not even agree with some scientists that tales of them arose from our forefathers' reminiscences...
...delegates to the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work and as many spectators as possible having collected within the Cathedral space, a bold Te Deum, specially written, resounded from the choir. Its words were Latin...
With cries of "Clear out the Jews" thousands of young men, belonging to the violently anti-Semite Hackenkreutzer (Swastika) organization, broke through the police cordons, began what they sportively called a "Jew hunt." Anti-Zionist Jews supported-"Christian Vienna" in its attempt to chasten their brethren...
...pangs of its worst anguish before giving birth to a red and painful peace, Dr. Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, dreamed that the churches, like the nations, might meet at a conference table. He began to make plans. Last week his labor and vision were consummated. The Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work began its first session in Stockholm, Sweden...