Word: porter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Historical Jesus and the Religion of Paul" will be the subject of the Dudleian Lecture by Professor F. C. Porter, Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology at Yale University this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock in Andover Chapel...
Jesus of the Emerald; by Gene Stratton--Porter. Garden City; Doubleday, Page...
...Jesus of the Emerald" is a poetic version by Jone Stratton--Porter of the "Lentulus Legend" concerning the personal appearance of Jesus Christ. According to the legend, the Roman Emperor Tiberius Caesar sends an envoy, Publius Lentulus, to Palestine to secure information concerning Jesus of Judea. Lentulus reports the power and Influence of the Christ upon the people under Pontius Pilate. The Emperor is so much troubled and impressed by the report that he sends his master craftsman to draw the likeness of Jesus. This picture when shown to Caesar in Rome is so striking that he orders it transferred...
Among the speakers of the week a Principal L. P. Jacks, head of Manchester College, Oxford, England; Mr. Phillip Cabot '94, secretary of the Executive Committee of King's Chapel, Boston; Professor Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Theological School; Professor F. C. Porter of the Yale Divinity School; Professor E. D. Starbuck, professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa; the Reverend T. R. William, minister of the Union Congregational Church, Brighton, England; and Dr. G. L. Richards '86, of Boston, lately returned from a world tour of mission hospitals...
...allied field of literature their is likewise an absence of knowledge. Harold Bell Wright is more popular than Shakespere: Pilgrims Progress more widely read than Gene Stratton Porter. Unless refuge is to be taken in Barnum's dictum, author and producer, musician and dancer must apparently be resigned to the fate of pleasing some of the public some of the time, some of it all, of the time, but never all of it all of the time...