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Ephesus, a city in Asia Minor which today lies ruined in a low, unhealthy marsh, was the traditional home of the Virgin Mary after she left Jerusalem. To Ephesus, in 431, went papal legates, Eastern patriarchs, bishops, to meet in judgment of a grievous heresy. Nestorius, new Patriarch of Constantinople, had declared that Mary could not be truly called "Mother of God." Mary, said he, was Mother of Christ in His human nature only. This view, in spite of protests from Rome. Nestorius defended. St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, was appointed to inform Nestorius he must recant or be deposed...
...lack of preachers to minister to it. What shall they say ? Most, today, talk of Depression. Some endeavor to be cheery, smart, topical. Others are modern, "humanistic." Of the group who preach the real oldtime religion, none is more zealous than a towering, white-haired patriarch of the Northwest, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews. Pastor of the world's largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's First, with a congregation of 7,886), he spoke forthrightly to his brothers last week. In The Presbyterian he wrote...
...inland capital of Nicosia, chattering Greeks (who never seem to go to bed) worked themselves up to riot. Some were inflamed by Orthodox priests who told of a "fiery cross" raised against British rule on the heights of Limassol two nights before. According to the priests, the Orthodox Patriarch of Cyprus (who jealously guards his 1,000-year-old right to sign his name in red ink) had proclaimed the end of British rule and the union of Cyprus with Greece "because the people will...
That Birth Control report enraged the Patriarch of the Northwest, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews of Seattle. Dr. Matthews is lawyer as well as preacher. As soon as he was called to Seattle (1902) he began cleaning up that wicked stopover towards the Klondike goldfields. He disrupted the brothels in the valleys and smashed the gambling dens on the hills. He brought the regenerate to God, and now with a congregation of 7,886 and with 27 branch Sunday Schools has the largest Presbyterian Church in the world on his hands. He is a tall, slender, white-haired Lion of Judah...
...Murphy. Patriarch Patrick Murphy heard that his son in America was running for mayor of his town. Mr. Murphy had done a good deal of campaigning himself, had once shaken the hand of the great Parnell, so he sent a letter to his son "marked Impahrtent on one side and Errgent on the other" and left the old sod to electioneer for his offspring. His son's wife was not happy to welcome the old man. She had social aspirations, had changed the family name to Murfree when they moved out of the Patch...