Word: risen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adventist, stated his creed with eloquence, in Brooklyn last week: "Doctrinally, Seventh Day Adventists are among the strongest evangelical Christians-fundamentalists of the fundamentalists . . . . The historic faith of the church is our faith, Christ the divine One, Christ the miracle worker, Christ the sacrifice for sins, Christ dead, Christ risen, Christ ascended, Christ our present high priest, Christ our present life, and Christ coming again. "Ours certainly is a full gospel. . . . We believe that it was Christ who created the world in six literal days, and rested on the seventh day; that it was Christ who gave the Ten Commandment...
...verily Prince Charming, up to the moment of commitment. Her second seduction, by Charles Fox, was a helpless lady's surrender to the slyest of flattery; he wooed her "parts," her "unsuspected powers." ... So writes generous E. Barrington-L. Adams Beck, the double-barreled lady who has lately risen to fame as an expositor of Oriental mysticism (Splendour of Asia, The Ninth Vibration, etc.) and simultaneously as biographer of the Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste Diana), Lady Hamilton (The Divine Lady) and Poet Byron (Glorious Apollo). Her periods billow out like fussy, over-embroidered crinolines when...
...snowed under with newspapers, and amid them sat a young man in blue and white pajamas, whiffing energetically at an after-breakfast cigaret. The reporters bowed deferentially, for this was one of the few species of humanity that reporters respect-a talented member of their own calling, a reporter risen to publisher...
After the sermon, supplicating hundreds sought him out, saying unto him their congratulations, touching his robes, admiring the prophet. To them he called for conversions and five came and were redeemed. And they embraced him and he them. He pronounced his faith risen again, stronger than ever, chanting unto himself, "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus...
...called himself the 'Herald of the Great King' was also rightly spoken of as 'another Jesus Christ,' appearing to his contemporaries and to future generations almost as if he were the Risen Christ. He has always lived as such in the eyes of men and so will continue to live for all future time...