Word: martyrdom
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...Jean the Woman" was adapted by one Jeannie Macpherson and produced by Cecil de Mille with creditable attention to historic detail and imposing display. Three scenes--the raising of the Siege of Orleans, the Coronation, and the final episode of the Martyrdom--stand out from the rest, and are more than worth seeing. Only it must be said that the Orleans business, though magnificent in effect, is, from the strategic point of view, extremely puzzling. We do not know whether Miss Macpherson is responsible for the battle scenes, but we fear the "love interests" in the photo-play must...
...literary fields, who gained in sureness and resultant beauty of effect at each new sally, a youth of large promise as a future literary figure. The article makes clear, too, the qualities of character which shaped Mariett into a hero for those who knew him intimately in his long martyrdom...
...MORNING PRAYERS. Rev. Prof. P. M. Rhinelander. Subject: Martyrdom, the test of strength. Appleton Chapel...
...placed in the position of servitude to which she has been subjected, Armenia has ever been able to give to the world what she has given,--a literature which can hardly be rivalled by any other European country, and a church history which is filled with accounts of Christian martyrdom...
...given his name to the sect, began to preach a new faith in Persia in 1844, proclaiming himself to be but the forerunner of one who should be the manifestation of God on earth. Twelve years after the martyrdom of the Bab at the hands of the Mohammedan clergy, Baha 'Ullah, a man of noble birth, who had already been exiled for his faith, declared himself to be the one foretold by the Bah, who had come to fulfil the prophecies of the past concerning the brotherhood of mankind and the fatherhood of God. Baha 'Ullah, who was, after this...