Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Josephus Daniels, most famed accuser of the Bishop, issued a last castigation: "The quality of mercy is not strained. It cdroppeth like the gentle rain from Heaven alike upon erring Bishop and erring Congoan.* ... It is the preaching of Methodists that confession of sin, followed by repentance and promise to sin no more, should meet with clemency and forgiveness. It was this attitude and this alone that stayed the trial of Bishop Cannon. Many laymen did not share the feeling of the preachers, because the statement of repentance and pledge to reform did not come until after a trial...
...GREEN PASTURES?An excellent exhibition of blackamoor theology on earth and as it is in heaven (TIME, March...
...more self-confident of them have even thought of being Jesus himself-in the hallowed Passion Play, which has been presented in Oberammergau since 1634. In 1633 the inhabitants promised God that thereafter, once every ten years, they would dramatize the last earthly days of Christ, if only Heaven would check the Black Plague whose dark miasma had penetrated even into the Bavarian Alps...
...000th birthday in October Italian gardeners will be furiously busy planting the Lucus Virgili or "Virgilian Wood," a great new park on the outskirts of Mantua, a modern version of the sacred groves of the ancient Romans, who planted groves of trees which in aspiring to heaven might honor their gods, goddesses. Because Poet Virgil mentioned 25,000 trees, shrubs and plants in his lengthy lays, specimens of all these are being planted in the Lucas...
...GREEN PASTURES?Many a Negro's idea of Heaven...