Word: martyrdom
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...exception; Mary Baker Eddy started it in 1866 simply by having a revelation. Conforming to the rule is another latter-day faith, Baha'i, which commemorated last week with services in 65 cities in the U. S. Its drama, not unlike the Christian Good Friday, was a drama of martyrdom...
...Baha'u'llah (Glory of God). He preached a simple all-inclusive creed, recognizing the divinity of the founders of the world's other religions. His tenets were internationalism, universal peace, love and tolerance for all, education, work and equality for men and women. Persecution, next best thing to martyrdom for making a religion grow, followed Baha'u'l lah though it is difficult to see how his gentle faith should have bothered anyone. From jail to exile to jail he went, throughout the East. In the early years of Baha'i (as the faith came to be known...
...Rouen, three weeks ago, a girl named Juliette Brebant played the part of St. Joan of Arc in the 500th anniversary celebration of the Maid's martyrdom. Climax of the proceedings came when pious Mlle Brebant was bound to a stake and had Roman candles and Chinese fire set off about her feet. In a high state of religious ecstasy, she fainted. Last week in a Paris hospital she was still delirious. Doctors despaired of her life...
...Sunday's row. Ever since he was ousted as Judge of Denver's famed Juvenile Court (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929 et ante} Mr. Lindsey has made a fetish of companionate marriage.† He has crusaded for it in magazine articles and lecture halls, acquiring a certain martyrdom which is not without its financial compensation.** Last fortnight he and his friends tried to arrange a debate on the subject with one of Bishop Manning's priests, who declined. But the Church-men's Association, dominated by anti-Manning clergy, invited Mr. Lindsey to speak to them...
...continental nations of Europe which have experienced a great growth of education coeval with the growth of nationalistic impulse in the past decade, will the flower of the nation blindly fling themselves in the dust. Youth has lost his patriotism and gained in understanding. If there is martyrdom and dying for the country it will not be because of the glory of a flag...