Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soviet leaders are of Jewish blood, but most have abandoned the Jewish faith.' Kamenev's lenience to the Synagogue is only in line with a recent circular of the President of the Russian Trade Union Congress urging all union organizations to show "tact" in fighting the Christian Church...
General Feng (pronounced Fung) is no longer the " Christian General " to Chinese Christians...
Combative Bishop Brown. Tha Right Rev. William Montgomery Brown is the retired Bishop of Arkansas, but he is still an active member of the House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. His book, Communism and Christianism, is one of the handbooks of the Communist Party, and because of the opinions expressed therein the House of Bishops at the Episcopal Convention in Portland, Oregon, last September was asked by the Diocese of Arkansas to depose him. This request was refused by the House on the ground that Bishop Brown was "mentally irresponsible." Then a committee of five bishops was appointed...
...even larger convention was that held in Des Moines by the International Young People's Society for Christian Endeavor. The 15,000 delegates came not only from the United States but from all over the world. The Christian Endeavor Society was founded 42 years ago and this is its 29th international convention. " The Harvest Time Is Here " was taken as the watchword and the young people were called "harvest hands." Their attention and enthusiasm was directed to the following points: World Court, the twelve-hour day in industry, religious as well as secular education, prohibition, prohibition of poppy growing...
Following the Dempsey-Gibbons prize fight at Shelby, The Christian Science Monitor published, editorially and as news, accounts of how the newspapers of the country gave publicity to the fight. The Monitor was incensed because The New York Times printed 19½ columns of fight news and 6 inches (about y⅓$ of a column) of news on the important conference of the National Education Association in San Francisco. The slogan of the Times is "All the news that's fit to print," and the Monitor commented: " A curious conception of what is ' fit to print...