Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sadie Bingham Lampkin, trustee of the Christian Science Society of Red Bank, N. J., fell ill of a pain in her stomach. She called a Christian Science healer and later reported herself "gloriously healed." A few weeks later she died. A licensed doctor refused to issue a death certificate. Thereupon the county physician, accompanied by a police sergeant, went to the home of the deceased, procured the body, performed an autopsy, declared that Mrs. Lampkin had died of peritonitis caused by a gallstone which had ruptured the lining of her stomach and that an operation would most certainly have saved...
Into the bosom of the Gaar family comes one Christian Coty de Sandoval, soft-spoken rascal from New Orleans, burbling about some huge amount of money owed by the de parted Banker Almy to his (Sandoval's) colleagues, erstwhile rebels in the captured city of New Orleans. They had, it would appear, hatched a plot to ship over to France certain financial inducements to some of the feminine harpies "with made-up titles," who surround Louis Napoleon, to persuade that calloused monarch to bestir himself in the cause of the Confederacy. They had collected some $250,000, much...
...that as it may, Sandoval and Christian had a quarrel about it. Christian aimed one at his jaw, Sandoval fell off the balcony and obligingly killed himself. He was drunk at the time, he was a scoundrel anyway, so it doubtless did not matter much...
Most Protestant Churches collect many millions for what is called Home Missions. These are Christian enterprises which can be conducted better by a national organization than by local churches (as, for example, care of immigrants, Indians, "poor whites"). Part of the work is assistance of small parishes which cannot provide for their own spiritual nutriment...
...groups. The crude form attacks the character of a man without giving his defense, and serves as pimp to the sensation lovers of the community. The refined form attacks a man's opinions without giving him a hearing and purveys to the prejudices of the opposed group. The Christian Science Monitor is an eminently respectable newspaper. In its godliness, it steers clear of all things lascivious or scandalous. But it is not above shutting off its opponents without a hearing and then publishing attacks on them. In the early part of May, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia...