Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Isabella and Nueva Vizcaya provinces is responsible. Within two months they have appropriated the heads of some 15 of their Christian neighbors...
...years I have been aware of the subtle, un-Christian influence of this song, The Star-Spangled Banner, and of the very evident use which is made of it to stir up sentiments inimical and hurtful to every ideal which Americans cherish. The fact is, that each time a bill has been introduced in Congress, seeking to .legalize 'The Star-Spangled Banner as our national athem, Congress has refused to give its sanction...
Every year since the issuance of this invitation, the Christians have met at Northfield. Last week Dr. Moody's son, William R. Moody, opened the 43rd Northfield General Conference of Christian Workers. Familiar topics were given a new illumination by the following churchmen: The Rev. John A. Hutton, D. D., of the Westminster Chapel, London; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, D. D.; the Rev. James Reid, M. A., of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Eastbourne, Eng.; Dr. William Louis Poteat, President of Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C.; the Rev. W. Fearon Holiday of Selly Oak College, Birmingham...
...many and marked. Yet, within the confines of his citadel, Father Gillan moves always in the open. He is wide-read. He is honest. He is witty. It is with great good humor that he takes the measure of Shaw's "automatic and mechanical perverseness," with true Christian charity that he pities Mark Twain's incurable despondency and Nietzsche's insane courage. He is hygienically, not narrowly, sceptical of Freud's unsavory deductions; gorgeously, not bitterly, ironical over Wells' exuberant absurdities. His deprecation of the naiveté of Sir A. C. Doyle, "the open...
...shooting, and was in Hongkong at the time, I am in a position to know that your statement was (unintentionally) misleading. I have talked with an eye-witness from the Shameen side and have heard fully the Chinese point of view from colleagues of mine who were at Canton Christian College the afternoon of the shooting; I have, also, a copy of the British Consul-General's affidavit giving the facts as he witnessed them. There were four or five thousand armed, uniformed soldiers at the tail-end of a monster parade of students, teachers and laborers. These soldiers were...