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...horribly shocking," though he admits that G. K. Chesterton once told him "that I have no right to limit my conception of reality and of God to that which does not shock me." Christ's last terrible cry on the cross ("My God. my God, why hast thou forsaken me?") strikes Murry as "the agony of foreboding that the God in whom he had believed and trusted did not exist, after all. God was beyond even his understanding. He had taken the risk and lost." Murry goes on to say that Christ had indeed won, though his reasoning...
...years on the Texas Criminal District Court bench in San Antonio; of cancer; in San Antonio. Before his retirement in 1954, Judge McCrory delighted many (and infuriated some) Texans with his salty obiter dicta on such subjects as poker (decrying impurities such as lowball), marital infidelity (advising forsaken wives to use the straight razor on their unfaithful husbands), rape ("There's been about as many men raped as gals; we don't have one real rape case a year in this county"), and murder ("Ask anybody if anyone worth anything has been killed in the last ten years...
...Bibles in Chimpay, and the Indians began to study the Torah and live by it. Eleven years later, a Chilean Jew named Santiago Martinez visited Chimpay, gave the Indians real instruction in Judaism, and told them that the children of Israel had completed their millennium of suffering for having forsaken Jehovah and were soon to return to Zion to await the coming of the Messiah. The Araucanians observed Jewish dietary laws, feast and fast days, separated men and women for worship, even broke down their tribe into classic biblical castes. They elected a leader, one Luis Bravo, who met biblical...
Though old Amana colonists view with sadness the passing of stern piety, they have no regrets for having forsaken communism-for Amana learned years ago the bitter lesson that other millions are learning today. "Communism," says Leader Moershel, "wasn't practical...
Roly-poly M. (for Marion) Penn Phillips, 70. claims he has sold more parcels of land (an estimated 100,000) than any other man alive. What is more remarkable is that most of the land was among the most forsaken and forbidding in the U.S.: the western desert, burned by searing sun and swept by fierce sand storms. Phillips and the 100 land development companies he heads have been prime movers in the great California desert boom. Once a death trap to pioneers, the desert's rock and sand wastes, with their harsh beauty, dry, pollen-free...