Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neatly-landscaped ten-acre plot outside Portland, Ore. the 29th annual camp meeting of the Apostolic Faith began late in June. From States as far off as Pennsylvania and New York its adherents gathered, setting up quarters in 500 tents. They fed themselves at the camp ground's restaurant or bought their victuals from its stores. They knew better than to wear low-necked dresses or to use tobacco or alcohol. Zealous believers in a God whose Son might return to earth any minute, they prayed, sang, shouted night after night until last week when two husky ministers ducked...
Founder and high priestess of the Apostolic Faith is an indomitable white-haired woman named "Mother" Florence Louise Crawford, 63. She believes that God spoke to her in 1906 when, twice married and the mother of two, she was dancing. "I did not know the voice of God and went on in the dance. . . . My feet became heavy and the place was no longer beautiful to me. Again the voice spoke much louder, 'Daughter, give me thine heart!' The music died away and I left the ballroom; and for three days and nights I prayed and wept...
...Portland blacksmith shop, began preaching against divorce and remarriage. She firmly advocated tithing, explaining to her followers that the Gospel is against life insurance, labor unions, lodges, the cinema, bobbed hair, stylish garb and other extravagances. Thriving on tithes plus free-will offerings at meetings, the Apostolic Faith now has $500,000 worth of property, a printing plant, a Live Gospel Mission ("Brightest Spot in Portland"), others in Norway, Sweden, South Africa and Bowling Green, Ky. Treasurer of the Faith is a man called Paulson, who also serves as mechanic for eight Apostolic automobiles. Sailors in Portland Harbor are evangelized...
...super-galaxies. Above all, the Universe of universes-the Metagalaxy. "That," says Harlow Shapley, "is as far as astronomy takes us. Beyond that is metaphysics, and whatever approach thereto the individual may prefer. Most astronomers are agnostics. Not atheists- that presumes more conviction than religion does. Scientists cannot have faith. Ours is a perpetual inquiry; any acceptance of faith-in a scientific or a metaphysical or an esthetic sense-brings inquiry to a halt...
Early one morning last week in her native Brooklyn Miss Ingalls' new Wasp-powered Lockheed Orion Auto da Fe (Act of Faith) was trundled out of a hangar for a non-stop flight to California. Standing beside the gleaming black-&-silver monoplane, Miss Ingalls' dander rose when a bystander said something about a possible funeral. ''You be quiet!" she snapped, blue eyes blazing. Tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Miss Ingalls next became angry over an airport ruling that she had to use an unfamiliar runway. Finally she took off, headed west, reached Burbank...