Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There his reception was historic but not cordial. Upon his tall soberly garbed figure descended all the old righteous rage of the East against the Latter-day Saints. Christian pastors bellowed for his expulsion from the Senate. The ancient horrors of polygamy were dragged out and paraded before the world?despite the fact that polygamy had long since ceased to be a tenet of Mormonism. Humble and meek to a fault, Senator Smoot hung on against this two-year gale of religious disapproval, worked, waited, prayed. At the feet of Aldrich and Penrose and Lodge he became an apt pupil...
...gambit of the Christian Science Parent Church was to charge that Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy used anesthetics. It was a familiar move and the Christian Science Mother (Boston) Church quietly answered that Mrs. Eddy did not "at any time after she became a Christian Scientist either use a drug or allow one to be used for her except as she employed in a few instances an anesthetic for the purpose of temporary relief from extreme pain." (TIME...
...Parent Church followed the gambit by charging that the Mother Church was responsible for many stupid tragic deaths, cited that of one Walter J. Kline. who died under the care of a Christian Science nurse.* The Mother Church answered that the Kline nurse was not a duly accredited Christian Science nurse said: "There is nothing in the teaching of Christian Science which should keep a patient from having whatever physical care he needs and the best...
Said Mrs. Annie C. Bill, Parent Church leader: ". . . the implication that the truth found in Science and Health was wholly the discovery of Mary Baker Eddy must be withdrawn. This does not mean that I have in the slightest degree lost confidence in Christian Science. A dis- tinction must be made between the medium through which truth reaches the world and the truth itself. The truth I stand...
...Christian Scientist Kline died from a carbuncle in his neck which was allowes fatally to spread, deepen...