Word: churches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decided to send a messenger to heaven. Looking about him, Ivan Skripnik chose young Gregory Romashevsky to act as this messenger. Romashevsky blanched but accepted, prepared to die. He lay down on the table in the mean wooden house that serves the Johnists for a church. By his head was laid an old butcher knife, carefully sharpened...
...Church to recognize government ownership of church property, so long as the Church remains official custodian of the same...
From unofficial sources it was said that the following points of agreement had already been reached between Mexican Church and State...
Thirty-two years ago in Meriden, Conn., a beady-eyed little girl was born to the Ponzillios, thrifty Italian immigrants. They named her Rosa. As she grew older she was always singing. She sang over her lessons in school, over the dishes at home, in the church choir. Her first job was as entertainer in the local "nickelodeon." Her fame spread locally, she was offered a position at New Haven's Molone's restaurant at the fabulus figure of $50 per week. Meanwhile, her elder sister, Carmela, entered smalltime vaudeville with her contralto voice. Rosa joined forces with...
Fundamentalism v. Modernism is the oldest of church issues. It reappears annually in the U. S. when the Protestant sects hold conventions. Lately, and especially last week, this great fissure within the sects has been dwarfed in churchmen's minds by the larger idea of uniting the sects themselves. But last week there were two typical survivals of Fundamentalism v. Modernism, and a notable comment thereanent...