Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholics often misunderstand our position on birth control, for they seem to believe that Catholic married couples are bound to have children to the mother's capacity for child bearing. This is not our teaching. It is perfectly ethical to limit the family, if the method used is self control by abstinence and continence. This may even be obligatory, when a mother's life or health would be seriously jeopardized by further childbearing, or when real destitution would result from further additions to the family...
Observers recalled that Major Mills resigned from the Prohibition service after his transfer from New York Administrator to Eastern Zone Supervisor, and that this transfer followed charges of third-degree method used by Major Mills' subordinates. Resigning, Major Mills complained of political interventions and described his office as "the most difficult and thankless position in the Federal service...
...published a study of the economic situation. Is Violence the Way Out? In this he aligned himself definitely with the working class in the capital-labor fight. By some method Labor must eventually triumph, and a completely new order of society must be established. But it would be folly for labor to use violence to attain...
...this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among the 725 prescriptions for 243 diseases listed in his Primitive Physick: or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases is the remedy for "a consumption"-"take a cow-heel from the Tripe-house ready drest . . . two ounces of Isinglass . . . Sugar-candy ... set them in the oven after the bread is drawn . . . let the Patient live on this...
...before the tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...