Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Tribune, could "boost" its home town with more incessant ardor than the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the Baltimore Sun, the Bridgeport Post, the Philadelphia Public Ledger or the New York World? What newspaper could, in fairness to its readers, carry more educational news than that earnest sheet, the Christian Science Monitor? What newspaper would dare charge more than five cents, as do the New York Evening Post and that earnest sheet, the Christian Science Monitor? Or, to face about, what could be " snappier" news writing than: " They're digging up some of the wildest riding buckaroos that ever forked...
...Jesus of Nazareth called fishermen to be "fishers of men," so an organization today calls upon salesmen to be sellers of the gospel. At Madison, Wis., met the Gideons,* otherwise known as the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association of America, to celebrate 25 years of service. Speaking of its early growth from 3 to 3,500 members, J. H. Nicholson, Denver, its first Secretary-Treas- urer, said: "In those days we were not afraid to walk up to every traveling man we saw on a train and ask him if he was a Christian." President Boggs, of Philadelphia, praised...
...outraged the laws of our Divine Lord and whose treatment of women violated Christian principles of Purity and Honor should not be commemorated in Westminster Abbey...
...book in the main deals with the persecution of the Christian minorities by the Turks. There is little exaggeration here, and in the historical background, so copiously supplied, no major error of fact is detectable. The partisanship of the book lies in its grave omissions. This can best be shown by example...
...theme, rather antique, deals with a Christian Mission threatened by a Moslem uprising; with the love of a native son for the Missionary's daughter...