Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moscow remaining dully silent to French reminders that Ambassador Christian G. Rakovsky had become persona non grata, (the diplomatic equivalent of demanding his recall), the French Government decided last week to take stronger steps...
Presbyterian rule has held that only desertion and adultery are legitimate grounds for divorce. In this Presbyterians have been more liberal than most Christian denominations. Most admit only adultery as a divorce cause. A Presbyterian minister might properly marry a divorce only if the person were the innocent derelict of desertion or the innocent cheat of adultery. And, because the minister has had free discretion to judge marital innocence, amiable pew-holders occasionally have tried to strain his goodwill...
...calls on a minister to interpret what is irremediable willful desertion and what is injustice to an innocent person who has been divorced for Scriptural reasons-interpretations not always easy to make, having regard both to his duty to maintain Christ's ideal of marriage and to show Christian sympathy with those who have been the victim of tragic wrong...
...Peabody was born in Cambridge on November 24, 1881, the son of Francis Greenwood Peabody '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus, and Cora Weld Peabody. He was graduated from the College in 1903, and received his M. D. from the Medical School four years later...
...Bloemhof in the Transvaal onetime premier of the Union of South Africa, General Jan Christian Smuts, arose to make a political speech...