Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learn, for instance that "every Scholar shall on the Lord's Day carefully apply himself to the Duties of Religion and Piety; and whoever shall profane said Day by unnecessary Business or visiting, walking on the Common, or in the Streets or Fields in the Town of Cambridge, or shall use any Diversions there-on or otherwise Behave himself Disorderly or Unbecoming the Season, shall be fin'd not exceeding three Shillings...
...call your attention to the fact that when your department of RELIGION, TIME, Feb. 28, p. 22, explains the assertion that Christianity is "primarily a way of life" by the inserted note, "i. e. a moral code," it is far from doing justice to the persons quoted. They might without hesitation appeal to the New Testament itself, for when Jesus said, "I am the way . . no one cometh unto the Father but by me," He surely did not mean that He was a moral code. When Paul wrote, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth...
...informality, celebrate Ash Wednesday as their beginning, the Roman Catholics having their foreheads marked crosswise with the ashes of palms used on Palm Sunday of the previous year. Then for 40 days of Lent-a Teutonic word originally meaning spring-they turn their thoughts with especial pains towards their religion...
...against the State!" the Vatican news organ, Osservatore Romano, sought next day to soften the Pope's rebuke to Mussolini. The editor ingeniously declared that President Coolidge and Premier Mussolini both "are agreed on the principle of the pre-eminence of spiritual things." From Mr. Coolidge was quoted: "Religion is necessary"; but the nearest similar remark which could be quoted from Mussolini was of very different purport: "Youth must be brave, honest and upright...
...saloon near his alma mater, Terwillinger College. Needing a fight, he lurches into a soap-box crowd that a pimpled Y. M. C. A. pipsqueak is converting, and flattens the hecklers. The Baptists gasp. "HellCat" Gantry, the black-maned campus bully with his boasted amours and loud contempt, get religion? The pipsqueak fawns and prays. A bully bigger than Gantry, "Old Jud" Roberts, praying (and weeping) fullback from Chicago, holds a chest-pound-ing, fistshaking, handshaking, "manly challenge" revival. "HellCat" confesses publicly. The half-baked atheism of "Hell-Cat's" only friend and roommate, Jim Lefferts, is no match...