Word: pentecostal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a semireligious inspiration behind the Jewish back-to-the-farm movement, for the Jewish civilization of the Old Testament was primarily agricultural. The three great religious feasts of the Jews-Passover, Pentecost, Succoth-are fundamentally harvest festivals. Though in the centuries of the Diaspora (dispersion) circumstances have forced most Jews into occupations from which they could pull up stakes at any time, there nevertheless have always been farmer Jews somewhere. Today there are 800,000 Jewish farmers in the world...
This commencement was part of the 14th International Convention of Sister Aimee's Foursquare Gospel Church. Delegates from 357 U. S. and Canadian churches, foreign missionaries and 12,000 Los Angeles faithful heard Mrs. McPherson preach thrice daily, attended a Pentecostal Fire Rally lasting from 6 a. m. until midnight and involving shouting, ''speaking in tongues," sermons on such subjects as Fires of Hell, Sodom Fire, Fire of Pentecost, Avenging Fire, Fiery Furnace, Cleansing Fire. Finally they beheld a 14-scene pageant, "March of the Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which...
From the 4th Sunday after Epiphany (Feb. 2) to the 25th Sunday after Pentecost (Nov. 22), Chicago Catholics will hear sermons on matters like the contract of matrimony, the arrangements and external solemnity of marriage, the canonical impediments thereto, mixed marriages, divorce, birth control, abortion, the conditions under which marriages may be valid or null & void. ¶ In St. Louis was published For Better...
...Pentecost", Professor Lake, Fogg Lower Lecture Room...