Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suave Dane. Elected president of the Assembly was that suave and charming crony of King Christian X of Denmark, His Excellency Herluf Zahle, Minister for Denmark at Berlin. Minister Zahle was Denmark's first delegate to the League in 1920, and resumed that post in the years...
Such, in excerpt, are the authentic words wherewith a Christian may be thoroughly damned by the Roman Catholic Church. But not every Catholic who is excommunicated is damned so wholeheartedly. There are degrees. For example, M. Maurice Pujo, famed Managing Editor of the French Royalist newspaper L'Action Française (TIME, July 4, 1927 and Dec. 19), was permitted to be married at Paris last week, in the vestry of a Roman Catholic Church, although not long ago he was excommunicated (TIME, April...
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, was sharply rebuked last week by dignified, shocked wardens of the Amsterdam Christian Reformed Church. They felt that the good Queen had desecrated a Sunday on which she awarded prizes to winners in the Olympic Games...
...late Frances E. Willard planted two saplings, 70 years ago, and cried: "As these two horse chestnut trees grow and spread their branches, so the cause of temperance shall grow and spread throughout all the world." Miss Willard was the founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The two trees in the yard of her home at Evanston, Ill. (now the headquarters of the W. C. T. U.) did grow, and now they are rotting. Last week, tree surgeons were busy anointing, repairing and healing the two trees...
According to an explicit despatch, the erstwhile "Christian Marshal" recently assembled his staff-officers at Wuyuan and impressively described to them the lifelong development and final state of his Faith...