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...Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson, 53, devoutly believes, and when medics told her that she would be able to resume her career despite the heart attack she suffered five months ago, "I went to a Catholic Mass and prayed," she said, in her Chicago home. "I'm a Baptist, but I believe there's only one God." One thing taken away for good, however, with the aid of a diet, are 50 of Mahalia's original 250 Ibs. "Doctors say I have to lose at least 25 more Ibs.," she laughs...
...letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life...
...capable of affording so large an amount of gratification to all classes of observers." What narrow and unqualified praise Thomas Glazebrook Rylands Esq. permitted himself. He went on to say: ". . . if (this treatise) shall induce more vigiliant attention hereafter to these minute but altogether admirable works of Him who 'giveth snow like wool, and casteth forth His ice like morsels,' it will receive an ample reward...
Wasn't his new Republicanism a reversal of old Republicanism that opposed New Deal legislation? "The world moves, and ideas that were good once are not always good. I believe it was Tennyson that said: 'The old order changeth and giveth place to new lest one good custom should corrupt the earth.'* We have gotten into the type of civilization now where the Government must interest itself more in the old age security, in unemployment insurance, and all that sort of thing . . . I believe in it, I stand for it, and I don't care...
When St. Paul told the Christians of Corinth that "the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life,"* he was using inspiring language. But, as his successors soon found out, without the letter of Christianity, which includes church doctrine as well as Holy Writ, the spirit would have a hard time getting itself heard and handed down. It is a fact, however, that letter and spirit, despite the best intentions, often get in each other's way. So they did last week in Chapel Hill...