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Another interesting detail is the parapet showing the "19 greatest figures of the 19 completed centuries of the Christian era." The problem of choosing them took an ecclesiastical body in New York two years. They...
...Willis King, President of Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., charged America with being the greatest sinner in regard to taking human life. "Since 1885 in this country there have been put to death more than 4,000 colored people by lynching and mob violence...
...Paul, the greatest figure of early Christianity after Jesus...
...vast, unfinished Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, a magnificent commemorative celebration was held. The occasion was the 50th jubilee of the concrete idea of building the Cathedral and the 31st anniversary of that Day of St. John the Evangelist when the cornerstone "of the greatest cathedral in the English-speaking world" was laid. The religious services of celebration started in the morning with Holy Communion administered by the Rev. Henry Van Dyke,-as celebrant, Suffragan Bishop Lloyd as deacon, Suffragan Bishop Shipman as sub deacon. At the beginning of the afternoon an elaborate luncheon was served...
...until the Mayan records were destroyed by the Spanish Inquisition in Yucatan, in 1561 A. D. These dates, positively fixed by inscriptions in the Mayan city of Copan, in western Honduras, were probably set by one man, an unknown mathematical and astronomical genius who was unquestionably one of the greatest scientists of all time. The Mayas set the beginning of the world in 3373 B. C., counting back from their fixed date seven cycles of 144,000 days each. The perfection of the Mayan calendar required the invention of a symbol for zero, figures for whole numbers and place-value...