Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain, Conn, is the Chaldean Mission attended by Rev. Sergius Sarmas, a Chaldean priest, resident of St. Thomas' Preparatory Seminary of Hartford...
Blue Ridge Mission School...
...father's commercialism, his reactionary social code. Some of Shigeo's friends are arrested on suspicion of Communism. Shigeo, fearing that he may be implicated with them, is reassured by his old friend Major Honjo, a kind-hearted Christian convert who carries on a one - man rescue mission among the Yoshiwara women. At one of Major Honjo's Sunday Bible readings Shigeo meets and falls in love with Kimi. the latest addition to the Major's household. Old Yamano, deprived of his mistress, discovers her whereabouts from his unsuspecting son. From this point on the depth...
...gleaming rails-the twin steel bands Of Commerce-spanning verdant isles, Running o'er the sea miles on miles; In old Key West their mission ends, Dreadnoughts to her each nation sends And wealth & fame all this portends...
Singing oldtime gospel hymns at a Bowery mission in Manhattan on Sundays is an earnest, round-faced woman who twelve years ago in Indianapolis dedicated herself to the service of God and the Volunteers of America.* Mrs. Lillian B. Ulrey claims that she was paralyzed from the waist down when friends persuaded her to attend her first Volunteer gathering. There she suddenly felt a call to rise from her wheel chair, march up to the platform and sing He Lifted Me. Cured, she felt free to marry Walter Otis Ulrey, a stocky young businessman, who willingly renounced his worldly goods...