Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lion (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by the Federal Theatre). The old fable of Androcles, who removed a painful thorn from a lion's paw, which caused the lion, when they met again in the Roman arena, to fall upon his neck instead of his limbs, has come a long way. A generation ago Shaw put the fable into play form as a droll picture of the early Christian martyrs and a juggling act on religion. Last week the Federal Theatre, seeing in Shaw's play "a pertinent dramatic discourse upon the problem of world minorities," produced...
...angel of the Lord came upon them, and . . . said . . . Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. . . . The shepherds said one to another, let us go now even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass...
When Jesus was born . . . behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the East, and are come to worship him. . . . They departed, and, lo, the star, which they saw in the East, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. . . . They presented unto him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh...
...North America included the famed woman theologian, Dr. Georgia Harkness; two Bishops, Methodist James Chamberlain Baker of San Francisco and Episcopalian Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio; and World's No. 1 Missionary Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, lofty-minded Methodist emissary to high-caste Hindus, who had just come from a tour of U. S. colleges (TIME...
...torn China sent 60 delegates to Madras. Far from being dismayed at the physical damage done to mission buildings during the war, Chinese Christians rejoice in the new respect which Chinese soldiers and people have come to feel toward Christian missionaries. A decade ago, missionaries bore the brunt of China's hatred of foreigners, but are now welcomed wherever there are Chinese masses in need...