Word: gods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many as 500 anxious women attended prayer-meetings during the week at Houston, to beseech their God to prevent the Smith nomination. After the nomination and the Smith telegram denouncing Prohibition, the anti-Smith movement was given somewhat more definite form. Preachermen, including Bishop James Cannon Jr. (Methodist Episcopal) and the Rev. Arthur J. Barton (Baptist), called for a Dry rally at Asheville, N. C., next week and for a "National Jacksonian Democratic Convention" on Aug. 7 at Richmond, Va. Observers doubted that these gatherings, if held, would become any more significant than the proposed national convention of the Prohibition...
...heroic dead were buried last week at Zagreb, the chief city of Croatia. Their coffins had arrived from Belgrade on a train which carried all the unwounded Croatian Deputies, who solemnly and unanimously vowed before God never to re-enter the Skupshtina so long as the present cabinet of Prime Minister Velja Vukitchevitch remains in power. On a previous occasion the Croatian Deputies stayed away for five years after making a similar threat. Bitter and thrice bitter are Croatians against Serbs, whom they consider to have robbed them of even those rights which they possessed when Croatia formed part...
...race, but according to this foundation we are being classed with the animals on the farm, the cow, the horse, the mule-perhaps with the alligator and the snake. . . . According to this foundation, I have no right to be born, for I am the youngest of 16 children and God bless my mother for every one of them! . . . Thank heaven that I was born! And if I do say it myself, I have not done so badly in my lifetime...
...Birth control is heralded because the poor . . . are largely responsible for defectives. Never was there cast . . . a more offensive insult. Defectives, physical or mental, have immortal souls, redeemed by the blood of Christ. The forces of evil . . . would exploit the bodies and ruin the souls of the children of God." (TIME...
Divorced. Rodney ("Gypsy") Smith, famed evangelist; by Karin Tjader Smith; in Bridgeport, Conn. She charged "intolerable" cruelty after having been persuaded to withdraw worse charges. Born in a gypsy camp in Scotland, Rodney Smith found God in the Salvation Army, in London, when he was 17. Since then, for 50 years, he has preached and sung God all over the world...