Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under the heading "Religion," in the Aug. 18 issue, TIME says that "Prime Minister Mussolini had rejected earthquake aid from the Protestant-supported American Red Cross...
...came to the Temple to help Sister because the business affairs were getting out of hand. ... I told Sister, 'I'll be the Mussolini of business and you handle the religion.' I worked things into good shape at once but I made enemies of some of Sister's friends. We had a number of arguments and then one day she called me into her office. She was furious and after some words she struck me on the nose...
...town. "He had brown hair and a beautiful face, and he upset me. I said to my father: 'Daddy, let's go.' " Several days later she fell down in a roller-skating rink, sprained her ankle. Following this experience a "great fire came down," she got the Oldtime Religion and Evangelist Semple. Together they went to China, where he died, leaving her with a baby, Roberta. She returned to California and married one Harold McPherson, by whom she had another child, Rolf. Then she divorced McPherson and took up soul-saving. Once, lacking a crowd, she stood on a chair...
...California appeared to be a land of milk & honey for anyone who wished to interest others in religion teaching. Mrs. McPherson felt that her Four-Square Gospel would find converts there. It did. By 1923 she had established herself in the most efficient theological plant in the country. Above the bowl-roofed Temple (seating capacity: 6.000) she raised great radio masts from which her daily sermons are broadcast. She edits a weekly paper, a monthly magazine. She runs a Bible school in which 1,000 students are enrolled. Her Four-Square City Sisters carry on an efficient charity service...
...scene of its namesake's last triumphs and death. Until buildings are completed, classes will be held at the Rhea County High School. Matriculating students may be of any race, creed or sect, but administrative officers and faculty of the college must be firm believers in Old-time Religion. First President, also an nounced last week: Dr. George E. Guille, longtime extension Bible teacher at Moody Bible Institute, Chicago...