Word: paganization
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...contended by some that the veneration of saints is a noble and excellent means for bringing the Christian nearer to that communion of saints towards which Christendom presses. By others, beatification is denounced as a "survival of the pagan apotheosis of the departed" and as heretical, since there is only One who is holy, even God. Here tradition and temperament divide...
...sincere or inspired attempt to capture the rapt flapper attention excited by tales of Joseph Hergesheimer's best seller. This is the least successful of the various Hergesheimer stories that have been hurled with some effect upon the screen. It seeks to reveal the spirit of the old pagan goddesses still inhabiting the modern society damsel - accomplishing this with gilded settings in Manhattan and Cuba, where the soul is so easily laid bare...
...Feng is the really powerful general, now encamped near Peking, who is continually reported as having converted whole regiments. His soldiers are often heard singing the Doxology, Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, Bringing in the Sheaves, etc. But the word? employed are often pagan and profane...
...town in Ohio to bury her mother. The mother had died as bitter protest against the smoke and soot which factories shot upon her gardened mansion. Out of the factories had come human wretchedness. Into the wretchedness had gone Irene, sister of virtue, to find in Christian charity what Pagan love had denied her. To her goodness a giant had been drawn, a socialist Galahad. But when he had run from the bullets of the strikebreakers into the gardened mansion at dead of night, he had found, not Irene the good, but Lily the beautiful. At dawn, Lily returned...
...February 11, Professor C. H. Moore '89, Professor of Latin in the University, will give the second lecture. His subject will be "Pagan Worship...