Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor swinging columns of statistics, ponderously trying to hit the gadflies of the opposition, one of whom, with the most biting sting of all, was Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Last week Senator Smoot was in far off Utah serving as a pillar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.* And Pat Harrison, no longer cast as a gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee had to try to hold in check a Senate suddenly eager for taxes, taxes, more faxes. Sometimes the Progressives led by La Follette, Nye and Norris harried...
...holy messengers of Thine: Forgive our foolish ways, capture our truant thoughts, direct our wandering wills, as once again with contrite hearts we fling ourselves as penitents in utter self-abasement upon the world's great altar stairs of prayer that slope through darkness up to Thee. . . . Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." With this prayer by Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips the U. S. Senate began its deliberations one noon last week...
...variety of words and music, each identified with a central theme. The Militant, Conquering Life in Christ, in nine sections, includes such hymns as: "Fight the Good Fight," "The Son of God Goes Forth to War," "Who Is on the Lord's Side?", "Onward Christian Soliers," and "0 Jesus, I have promised." Onward, Have Christian Soldiers Promised." The second Hymn Festival, The Holy Spirit, in seven sections, introduces: "Creator. Spirit! By Whose Aid," "Holy Spirit, Truth Divine," "0, For a Heart of Calm Repose" and "Breathe on Me, Breath...
...little church in Cincinnati one night last week sat 80 pious Negroes and whites. On the platform stood a man singing in a slow, quavering tenor: "Wha-at a friend we ha-ave in Jesus. ..." Near him were half a dozen men and women whose features rhythmically moved in quickly-changing contortions. Their arms rose and fell, their fingers wiggling in concerted movement. Only sound in the church was the creaky tenor voice. When the hymn ended, the gesticulations of the half dozen people ended and the audience -So deaf-mutes-broke into spirited applause. The pastor of Cameron Methodist...
...Radical in its day was Dickens' belief that Christ was conceived by Joseph and not God. Not until 14 years later appeared Kenan's celebrated Life of Jesus which also rejected the Immaculate Conception: ''His father, Joseph, and His mother, Mary, were people in humble circumstances living by their labor...