Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another interesting detail is the parapet showing the "19 greatest figures of the 19 completed centuries of the Christian era." The problem of choosing them took an ecclesiastical body in New York two years. They...
...terms of a football crowd?not many. In terms of a conference of undergraduates interested in Christian missionary movements, they made at Indianapolis last week "the largest student gathering ever held in the United States...
...listening to important speakers and the fifth in open discussion groups on current topics. The convention was usual enough in most respects, but unconventional in the eyes of precedent for the amount of criticism loosed. The speakers all concurred in believing that there is a great deal for Christian countries to clean up in their own borders before sending expeditions to the heathen lands...
...early Christian era, the telling of miraculous stories about the Founder and propagators of our highly estimable religion had an effect, almost equally miraculous, in the winning of converts--much as the modern missionary finds them useful to overcome the impassiveness of the unbeliever. To the untutored masses of the Empire, it was not a question of Mohammed going to the Mountain to be convinced, but rather of the Mountain coming to Mohammed in order to convince him by a material display of power. Never having been acquainted with even the possibility of such a higher life as the spiritual...
...belief upon such material matters. And as to the question of the Virgin Mary, which has lately aroused such animated discussion, it is hard to see just what difference an affirmative or negative decision can make in our faith. Is it not possible for one to be a good Christian without regard for whether one believes in the trimmings of Christianity that so attract the savage, or whether one consigns the miracles to the level of Greek mythology...