Word: cometh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kept to the hills, pondering the wickedness of priests, and the gullibility of the people. But suddenly he heard "the voice of one crying in the wilderness"-John decrying all that Jesus himself abhorred. Wakened from his listless dreaming, by John's prediction that "one mightier than I cometh," he started out among humble villagers, bringing them a message of love far simpler to understand than the hair-splitting taboos of their priests. His magnetism soon drew twelve men as disciples, and together they wandered from village to village, humbly enjoying the success of the master's teachings...
...When the Son of Man cometh shall he find faith on the earth...
...generation passeth away and another generation cometh: but the abideth forever. . . . For that which befalleth the sons of man befalleth beasts: even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth so dieth the other...
...assertion that Christianity is "primarily a way of life" by the inserted note, "i. e. a moral code," it is far from doing justice to the persons quoted. They might without hesitation appeal to the New Testament itself, for when Jesus said, "I am the way . . no one cometh unto the Father but by me," He surely did not mean that He was a moral code. When Paul wrote, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me," he was not, of course, professing indifference to morals, but he was "primarily" emphasizing a spiritual experience which...
...divorce) that she sits down, writes her husband: "Think kindly of me and be happy, happy, happy." The best part of this story is a quotation from the funeral service: "Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower. . . ." The last story, "The Letter," has a better and grimier plot. A thin, sensitive, charming married woman shoots, kills, a man who, she said, tried to rape her. The court acquits her. Really, she killed him because he had cast her aside...