Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astoria Hotel that she had incorporated a new Unity Center in that city, was hunting a permanent location for it. Said Mrs. West: "There is a new religious era, and it is being led by women. Women have the new vision of the new interpretations of the teachings of Jesus Christ...
...Charles Fillmore. Suffering from tuberculosis Mrs. Fillmore suddenly came to believe that there was a supreme power which could conquer all "negative or destructive agencies." She cured herself of her ailment and Mr. Fillmore got over a diseased hip. Accounting themselves new interpreters of the "scientific teachings" of Jesus Christ, the Fillmores set out to devote their lives to spreading the gospel of Unity, declaring that man could maintain direct communication with God (in morning and evening "silences"), and that Unity could, and eventually would, triumph over death. For their work the Fillmores resolved to charge no fees, merely accepted...
...story begins in the 80s, when the death of her widowed father, a Chicago cop, leaves her an orphan. May knows how to take care of herself. ("Off with you," she tells the oglers, "or I'll knock the Holy Jesus out of you.") At the same time, "deep down May was an aristocrat, a lady." She proves it by marrying handsome, good-for-nothing Mike Flavin, who takes her to Manhattan, buys a newsstand, leaves her to carry on while he drinks, chases women, finally stabs a man over a "maniac beauty" and skips for good. And although...
...leader of national revolution ... of social revolution ... of religious revolution. . . . How daringly and with what utter abandon Jesus endeavored to rescue the church and society of that day from its myriad ills and to awaken the masses from their ignorance! . . . Struggle and sacrifice are a revolutionary's duty. This also was the attitude of Jesus. This was my meaning on a former occasion when I said, 'Until peace has become hopeless, never forsake peace; when sacrifice has become necessary, then sacrifice without reservation...
...spirit of Jesus is constructive, sacrificial, holy, true, peaceable, forward-looking, full of eager striving; and it is revolutionary throughout. In this critical time for our nation, there comes the holy Eastertide, which is also a testimony to 'deathlessness of spirit.' My fellow countrymen, let us cherish the idea of a 'new- birth'; let us maintain the resolution of 'sacrifice.' Let us hold Jesus as the goal for human living; let us keep the mind of Jesus as our mind, the life of Jesus as our life. Let us bravely go with...