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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspired by God . . . supreme and final authority on faith and life. In this belief last week assembled the 15th annual convention ol the World's Christian Fundamentals Association, in Columbus, Ohio. Brothers and sisters they call one another- Christianized Jews, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, all sects represented but the Roman Catholic. The sisters out number the brothers. We believe in that blessed hope," the personal, pre-millemal and imminent return of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. At the door of big Columbus Memorial Hall, stacks ol pamphlets: "Shall We Longer Tolerate the Teaching of Evolution?" "The Doom of Democracy...
...shrines throughout the Roman Catholic world, millions of silent, smoky candles burn out their brief lives. In sum they make a mighty flame of devotion. Singly, each is to some inarticulate worshipper a symbol of prayer, sacrifice, joy or sorrow. Compounded not of tears or smiles but of beeswax, tallow, paraffin, a candle is a concrete thing. It costs money. Traditional practice in Europe (and lately in some U. S. dioceses) is to set a box of candles by every shrine, let the faithful help themselves and leave a small offering in return. Last week this practice was banned...
With an elan vital worthy of an amorous novelette Author Steeman, whose book won the 1931 Prix du Roman d'aventures, writes of five murders in a villainous row. For all the police could do, the row might have gone on around the world. A languorous heroine stops that?at least one man must be left alive to prevent her murdering herself...
When the babble hushed and a Roman Catholic priest had had his turn delivering the benediction (a Protestant had had first turn), the Committee on Credentials reported. It sprang a surprise by unseating one of the party's most familiar convention figures, National Committeeman Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert of Ninety-Six, S. C. When he set out to "clean up the G. 0. P., South" in 1929. President Hoover laid his political curse on the Tolbert regime in South Carolina, favoring instead the J. C. Hambright organizations. Prior to the convention, the National Committee had voted to seat Mr. Tolbert...
...Babylon and Nineveh and ancient Rome," cried he, "wallowed in the wealth of material prosperity, stood naked and unashamed in their perdition?and suc- cumbed. But the human lamp posts of Xero. the men, women and children thrown to the lions at the Colosseum for a Roman holiday, gave us the artesian springs of Christianity that rule the world, while the splendors of Rome are almost forgotten memories...