Word: christs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prison. Earl had a dramatic chance to become a hero. But instead of crying out at the thieves who had besmirched Honest Huey's memory, he said: "Smith is only one man. Jesus Christ picked twelve, and one of 'em was a son-of-a-gun." Then he just hung on-like a sailor lashed to the mast-while gales of scandal blew around his ears. Leche went to prison. So did Doc Smith, George Caldwell, Abe Shushan, and Huey's Campaign Treasurer Seymour Weiss. Monte Hart, a favored contractor, blew out his brains...
...Stigmata, wounds or scars corresponding to those of the crucified Christ, have long been studied, never satisfactorily explained. The first and most celebrated case of stigmatization was St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226). Since then at least 341 cases have been recorded, 300 of them women. Most famous 20th Century case was Theresa Neumann, a German, of Konnersreuth, whose bleeding wounds were witnessed by thousands during the 1920s-303s and became the object of scientific study and investigation...
With the help of two sons and a daughter, all of whom work for him, Publisher Hoiles runs his chain from Santa Ana. He shouts his letters and columns to a long-suffering secretary, passes out pamphlets on Christ and taxes to all comers, harangues editors, reporters and the janitor. But he confines his independent opinions to his signed column. Says he: "The news columns don't belong to us. We're just like stenographers...
First Grammarian. One central paradox of Christianity has always been the nature of Christ. Was He God or man or somewhere in a nebulous in-between? Theologian Baillie's orthodox answer includes both the "historial Jesus" and the "Christ of faith...
...merely the Creator, the Lawgiver, the wise and righteous Moral Governor, but something far more wonderful: He is the One who gives us what He demands of us, provides the obedience that He requires . . . But the whole experience of this . . . has come into our lives through . . . Jesus Christ. . . the one life which was wholly divine and wholly human...