Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaign song of the G. 0. P., as announced last week in a speech at Boston by U. S. Representative Franklin W. Fort of New Jersey, Secretary of the Republican National Committee, will be to the tune of "Onward, Christian Soldiers." Mr. Fort did not state whether the words of the hymn would be sung, or a special lyric substituted. The words of "Onward, Christian Soldiers" (first verse) are as follows...
Traitor's Past. Though nearly all journalistic historians of modern China explicitly describe Feng as a "traitor," .the Christian Marshal's missionary friends continued, last week, indignant at the adjective. The peculiar reasoning by which the missionary mind arrives at a conclusion opposed to the journalistic has seldom been better exemplified than by Miss Luella Miner of the Shantung Christian University, who wrote last week: "I challenge [anyone] to point to any 'cause' or superior officer or associate whom Marshal Feng has 'deserted' or 'betrayed' that has not been discredited later...
...Chinese Republic was now becoming fictional as succeeding Presidents fell more and more under the dominance of War Lords such as Wu Pei-fu. But the Christian General had been all the while building up a personal army which is today unique in the ability of its troops to support themselves without looting-a common practice of other Chinese armies but punished by Marshal Feng with Death. Instead of an army of bandits, why not an army of artisans? The Christian Marshal's answer is to teach all his soldiers some useful trade. One battalion weaves on portable looms...
After betraying Wu and seizing Peking (see p. 17) the Christian War Lord took a grave step. Until then the Republican Government had fulfilled the term of an agreement signed with the head of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1912, whereby the abdicated Boy Emperor was guaranteed the retention of his palace in Peking and a pension of 4,000,000 taels per year. Feng brushed this contract aside, ousted the Boy Emperor from his palace, and gave that young man such good reason to suspect that he would be murdered that, with the aid of his British tutor...
...driven from Peking and retired to his present famed war base at Kalgan, an impregnable stronghold 100 miles north of Peking. There Mr. and Mrs. Feng (she a onetime Y. W. C. A. worker), their several scampering children and a Swiss governess were "at home," until the restive Christian War Lord moved down into central China for the campaign now victoriously completed...