Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are many such in the South, will feel not a little piqued that their beloved hewer of the cherry tree has posthumously become the patron of the "Society for the Prevention of Calling Pullman, Car Porters 'George'." The inference is inevitable to a superstitious mind that the ghost of the great Father has risen in Danish wrath to object to the promiscuous use of his forename. A religious touch--which may smooth over the unmistakable insult to the present holders of the title--is added to the movement by the fact that Senator Moses has become...
...sacraments, priests? Is any of all this divine? "Yes," says the Bishop, "and here is my argument!" The Bishop contends that, although Jesus did not found a new church, he did most specifically refound the old Church of Israel, specifically equipping it with divine authority and sacraments. The Holy Ghost is not a theory but a fact. The Holy Ghost did come to the 'disciples after Easter, and the Holy Ghost has always been present in the Church, and under certain conditions, the Church, by the power of the Holy Ghost, is the voice of God upon earth, possessing...
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE-E. F. Benson-Doran ($2.00). The last word in literary delirium tremens. A collection of stories that would make a ghost blanch with horror and wrap his white sheets closer about him for protection. Disinterred corpses, supernatural beings, voices from the grave, razors dripping blood, coffins that won't stay underground-till the palsied reader dare not make a dash to negotiate that dark hall which leads to bed and safety. One is left with the conviction that Author Benson must still be sitting up somewhere. How did he ever dare go to bed after writing...
...Liberal Party of Asquith, which he had so recently abandoned, said nothing. At the eleventh hour it put up a candidate of its own, Scott Duckers, who?as everyone knew?had not the ghost of a chance, who could divert no Labor votes, no normal Conservative votes, but might be counted on to catch some of the votes that the energetic Churchill was scooping in from the highways and the byways...
Later, Dr. Keigwin repeated this story at the Fifth Avenue Church before 300 members of the Presbytery, adding that he had directly communicated with God on six other occasions. Then, with the voice of a prophet, he said: "The Holy Ghost is about to descend upon New York. The church in this city is on the eve of a second Pentecost. The Pentecost will be made by the spirit of God out of the differences of race, background and intellect that exist here. I feel that the spirit of God is at work this moment on the new Pentecost...