Word: lays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...muddy bleak Tiomne, near Uman, a church was crowded last week. Dingy communicants, bearded, bright-eyed, breathless, gazed in fascination at a plain wooden table which stood before the altar. A young man lay across the table. His throat was bared...
...black did life seem to "Johnists" Skripnik and Serednitzky and their followers last week that it wa's decided to send a messenger to heaven. Looking about him, Ivan Skripnik chose young Gregory Romashevsky to act as this messenger. Romashevsky blanched but accepted, prepared to die. He lay down on the table in the mean wooden house that serves the Johnists for a church. By his head was laid an old butcher knife, carefully sharpened...
Coffin's Warning. Addressing this year's 64 graduates of Union Theological Seminary (New York City), Union's eloquent, outstanding president, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, declared that Fundamentalists and Modernists had best lay their differences entirely aside and join in repelling "the humanist movement, which makes God simply a name for the ethical idea evolved by mankind and attempts to draw its moral standards from a study of human behavior. . . . Both sides must recognize a serious menace to vital Christian faith in the humanist movement. The urgent task for Christian scholars is to state the conception...
Fred B. Smith of White Plains. N. Y.. layman, chairman of the National Citizens' Committee of 1,000 for Law Enforcement, leader in lay religious organizations both national and international, was unanimously elected Moderator by the Congregationalists. Some time ago Moderator Smith retired from gainful occupation with Johns-Manville Corp., famed asbestos makers, to combat Hell's fire through church work...
...cause which Editor-Publisher George B. Lay hit upon seemed germane to the whole state of South Carolina. It derived from a lady living near the centre of the state on Lang Syne Plantation, 40 miles from Columbia. She, Mrs. Julia Peterkin, began acquiring national distinction as an authoress five years ago when she published Green Thursday, followed in 1927 by Black April. All her major characters are South Carolina Negroes, drawn as she has known them all her life on a South Carolina plantation. Not everything that plantation Negroes do is charming or even pleasant to contemplate. But nearly...