Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Kemal spoke less gargantuanly. First he opened Parliament. Then sonorously he recalled the triumphs of his regime-Sultan overthrown. Republic proclaimed, Calif overthrown, the Church disestablished, polygamy abolished, the fez abolished, women unveiled, and a new Capital built at ancient Angora. Finally the President reported progress in his incessant strivings to "Westernize Turkey." Proudly he declared that 12,000 teachers are now instructing Turks how to write and read their language in Occidental ABC's, though with the same phonetics as of yore...
While shocked or gleeful Britons were pondering these surely memorable words, good Squire Baldwin made further philosophic utterance, last week, at the 150th anniversary services in "The Little Church on City Road," famed London nucleus of some 106,000 Methodist churches which now dot the Globe...
...standard edition of Wesley's Journal, he wrote about himself that, as a young man "I had no notion of inward holiness" but lived "habitually and for the most part very contentedly in some or other known sin." Later, honest, forthright John Wesley became a High Church Episcopalian Clergyman, finally espousing Methodism. At the apogee of his potency, Pastor Wesley traveled some 5,000 miles a year, preaching and founding Methodist churches...
...Bishop of La Rochelle had denounced the erection of this monument as "a public sin." Reason: the statue represented the most famed and also infamous son of Pons, the late Prime Minister Justin Louis Emile Combes 1903-1905. Due to his efforts the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished in France, and ever since Combes has been a hero to the parties of the Left and to the Clericals a dastard. As Edouard Herriot prepared to pull the unveiling cord, he was conscious that a crowd by no means wholly friendly surged around him. Raising his deep timbred voice in sonorous...
Elected. Dr. Frank Parker Day, onetime Second Lieutenant in the King's Colonial Imperial Yeomanry, Major of the 28th New Brunswick Dragoons; Master of Arts at Christ Church (The House), Oxford, college boxer, crew man; English lecturer at Swarthmore College, as president of Union College to succeed Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond, resigned...