Word: recanting
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Next day Director Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union (champion of Evolution in the famed Scopes trial in Dayton, Tenn. in 1925) announced that the Union's Committee on Academic Freedom would urge the school board to recant. He thought the incident was significant: first of its kind in the North...
...seven justices of the Supreme Court of California last week descended from their high judicial bench to hear John MacDonald recant testimony that had sent Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings, radical labor agitators, to prison for life. Sitting without robes, not as a court but as an advisory pardon board, the justices commenced what was virtually and peculiarly a retrial of the bombing of San Francisco's Preparedness Day parade in 1916. Billings, as a two-time felon, could be pardoned only with the Supreme Court's approval...
After three months deliberation Charles V made a momentous decision. He denounced Protestantism as a sect. He gave adherents six months to recant or be exterminated. Then he rode out of Augsburg, silent and gloomy, only 30 years...
...many of the Protestants did recant. June 25, 1530 gave them a creed. The creed was the real foundation of the Lutheran Church, first of the Protestant denominations to assume cohesion and form. Adherents have spread during the 400 years to every country?82,000,000 in the world, 16,000,000 in North America. Of the 44,382,189 members of the 212 religious sects in the U. S. in 1926, Lutherans formed the fifth largest body,* thus...
John Huss (he spelled it Hus) of Bohemia was tied to a stake in 1415. Hysterical peasants and zealous priests pointed to a pile of fagots at his feet, again asked him to recant his life's teachings. He replied with his eyes on the clouds: "God is my witness that I have never taught or preached that which false witnesses have testified against me. He knows that the great object of all my preaching and writing was to convert men from sin. In the truth of that gospel. . . I now joyfully die." The flames licked out his life...