Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most famed Chinaman of today is Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, called 'the Christian General" and master of the largest personal army in the world (195,000 men). For a generation at least, Christian missionaries have called Feng the "Chinese Cromwell," rejoiced at his large-scale conversions of his troops to Christianity, and contentedly observed his distributions of Bibles in carload lots. Therefore the shock to Christians was great, last week, when delayed and not positively confirmed reports envisioned Marshal Feng as turning from Christianity to a newer faith...
When Mrs. Emma Marshall was sent to the penitentiary in Alabama, there to await execution, notions began slowly to revolve inside her head. She had been convicted of murdering her husband, because he, lying on his deathbed, had signed a document asserting that she (his Christian wife) had slain him. What possibility was there then that she could escape the law's severest penalty? Her husband was an atheist, remembered Mrs. Marshall; false-swearing by an atheist, even on a deathbed, promises no future punishment. An atheist is therefore considered more likely to be a liar than...
...Daniel A. Poling, president of the Christian Endeavor. Reason: "Righteousness and sobriety...
...Young People's Conference of the Presbyterian Church. Reasons: "A Christian gentleman . . . sterling character . . . dignified . . . high ideals . . . Protestant faith . . . Prohibition...
Skirts. Last week, His Holiness the Pope issued a thunderous edict. Modesty, he declared, is an essential part of godliness. Said His Holiness: "Early Christian women, dragged into the circus at Rome to be devoured by wild animals, were more concerned in covering their nudity than in saving their lives." Obediently, dressmakers dropped skirts a full two inches, brought their hems to a point between 1½ and 2 inches below the bend in the knee...