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Preaching & Planting. By 1796, Cokesbury had twice gone up in flames. Despite this omen, U.S. Methodists went on building colleges. The work was done by tempestuous circuit riders, such as the legendary Peter Cartwright, who wrestled the devil up and down the Ohio Valley (his biographer says he won). Though Wesley exhorted his circuit riders to "preach expressly on education," learning for themselves was another matter. Until 1934, Methodist ministers needed no bachelor's degree for ordination, qualified by a laughable oral exam. One minister bragged about his answers. What is the world's highest mountain? "Mount Zion...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Devil Makes Sunday," a story of rebellion in an island penal colony near Australia, serves to introduce Actress Brooke Hayward, 23-year-old daughter of the late Margaret Sullavan and Leland Hayward...
...book's most remarkable passages, Murry defines what Jesus is to him. The writing is hortatory, eloquent, exalted, and yet to anyone who sees in Jesus not man but the Living God, the passage must sound uncomfortably like the kind of sentimentalities spouted by the humanist Devil in Shaw's Man and Superman. Jesus, writes Murry, "is the spirit of liberated Man: Man's Love, man's Imagination; his passion for friendship; his unconquerable desire to trust; his inward knowledge that without trust there is no joy; no happiness; his everlasting longing to make...
...Devil Himself. The son of a railway stationmaster, Schiele lived most of his childhood in the drowsy Danubian town of Tulln, 14 miles northwest of Vienna. He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork. When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Even there he did not last for long. Cried one professor after a few months of Student Schiele's tantrums and rebellion: "The devil himself must have defecated you into my classroom...
...head so that the soul can escape through the root-hole. In Turkey, a hoca (holy man) wets the dying man's throat with water-if a soul gets too thirsty as it climbs the hill of eternity, it will surely sell itself to the Devil for a cooling drink, In Yucatan, on the other hand, the Chan Kom tribesmen beat the dying with a rope and urge them to get on with...