Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republic, we confidently radiocast the assertion: 'The work of the W. C. T. U. is just beginning.'"-so exhorted Miss Anna A. Gordon, President, to a great host of women, brimming with enthusiasm, who assembled in Chicago to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Miss Gordon herself dwells in Evanston, also the home of Charles G. Dawes. She lives in Rest Cottage, which was the home of Frances E. Willard, founder of the movement, and which was left by Miss Willard as a legacy to Miss Gordon. The delegates made a pilgrimage...
...Women's Christian Temperance Union in national convention at Chicago comes out strongly in favor of the "great American uplift." Since Volstead, this triumphant organization has taken the whole field of public morals for its own. There is not a crime, from smoking of "the foul and filthy weed" to the waging of war, which it does not now consider its legitimate "meat...
...will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow night at 7 o'clock. The purpose of this course of lectures is to give University men an idea of life in the countries of the Orient, of the Oriental point of view, and of the opportunities for Christian work there...
...which indicates that Wanamaker is not only the name of a big store in Philadelphia and another in Manhattan, but that of a sage, kindly, Christian gentleman...
...thing had led to another; Pastor Shaw found himself talking about U. S. newspapers. As reported by those who heard him, Pastor Shaw declared that the average modern newspaper, not excluding the dailies right there in Binghamton, were not worth more than 15 minutes of the time of a Christian reader. Some in the congregation quoted Pastor Shaw as adding: "Modern newspapers are a stench in the nostrils of decent people and reek with accounts of crime and filth...