Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International Y. M. C. A., man with genius for organizing religion, man to be heard with attention. He was bound for a national conference of the organization which under his velvet-gloved hand of iron has carried Protestant Christ to all heathen corners of the globe, has consolidated faith where it already existed, 52 nations in all. He does not look his age, though he should after 38 years of the most strenuous exertion of the will...
...Ladder. In order to reconcile the hardships of life with his faith in a benevolent Deity, Playwright J. Frank Davis has evolved a quaint philosophy of reincarnation. After an intolerably unhappy 13th Century, a group of people squirm, reincarnated, into the 17th Century, from there into the 19th Century, from there into the 20th Century, where, at last, matters are so divinely ordered that the heroine can have both a career and a husband with a good job and the right personality. Such a philosophy of transmigration, in short, as might make the Buddha so far forget himself...
...Bengal, told the tale and vouched for its truth. Some months ago the Rev. Jal Singh was told, by the wide-eyed inhabitants of an isolated village in his parish, to avoid a certain path into the hills. It was, they assured him, haunted by demons. Strong in his faith, and armed against wild beasts, the Rev. Jal Singh proceeded up this path and near it found, not a dragon's nest, but the den of a she-wolf, with several wolf cubs sprawling in it and two female humans, aged about two and eight years respectively. Exceedingly...
Lutherans. Dethroned by Presbyterians from their onetime third rank in number of U. S. Protestants, Lutherans plan to count hereafter communicants rather than confirmed members, as a fair and more impressive test of strength. Thus was cut a particularly tight Gordian knot, at the biennial convention of this faith, at Richmond...
Married. Constance Woolworth McCann, granddaughter of Frank W. Woolworth, popular-price merchant; to Wyllys Rosseter Betts Jr.; in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan. The groom recently changed his faith to that of the bride...