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...favorite hymn of the Southern Methodists: Spirit of faith, come down, reveal the things of God; And make to us the Godhead known, and witness with the blood. 'Tis thine the blood to apply, and give us eyes to see, Who did for every sinner die, hath surely died for me. The favorite Negro Methodist hymn: Joy is a fruit that will not grow In nature's barren soil; All we can boast, till Christ we know, Is vanity and toil...
...Independence, Mo., the Church of Christ (Mormon offshoot) wound up its general conference by unfrocking Elder Samuel Wood, onetime member of the Quorum of Twelve. His offenses: rebellion against church rules, "unChristian" conduct in Quorum session, heretical preaching that the Godhead is One instead of Three...
...Mexican government, as despatches announced that poison gas would be used, God Mexitl must have ruefully reflected that his own symbolic arms are a shield made of reeds tufted with eagle's down, and a handful of spears, each with an eagle's tuft. The peculiar insignia of his godhead, the so-called "stellar mask" resembles only incidentally that worn by burglars, and its purpose is not to conceal but to exalt...
What Mary Means to Catholics: As Mary-veneration grew, from the 6th Century on, Roman Catholics felt more and more that her peculiar relation to the Godhead fitted her especially as a sort of kindly mother before whom unworthy sinners might lay their prayers with the best hopes of a successful intervention with the "remote and awful Godhead." In early times, St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man." Even John Wyclif, pre-Reformation "heretic" said: "It seems impossible to me that we should obtain the reward of heaven without the help of Mary...
...Manhattan have read his daily stint, most of which has been criticism of art, music, books. The more literate magazines have welcomed his contributions in verse and prose. Last year he published Godhead, a powerful story of a "superman" whose original he discovered while covering a strike on the Gogebic iron range, northern Michigan. The contrasting humor and whimsy of his new novel is as astonishing as it is joyous...