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...sister Tamar was mistress. Tamar had long ago gone to the bad. was now comfortably married, well-off, happy. Susan swallowed her pride, rested and revived her soul. Her ambition stirred again when rich, pious David Pell fell in love with her. She persuaded him to start a new sect, to found a religious community in the country with herself as head priestess. When her husband Clarabut's death was reported in the newspaper Susan's faith was once more made firm. It was a shock when just before her wedding to Pell she discovered Clarabut was alive...
...modern forms without losing their essential Hebraic spirit. From the two previous hymnals, published in 1897 and 1914. the committee has removed 177 hymns written by non-Jewish composers, and substituted some 200 authentic Judaic compositions. Still to be part of the service, but not employed by any other sect, Jewish or Christian, are hymns with verses by Louisa May Alcott (Little Women}, Poets William Cowper, Thomas Moore and John Addington Symonds, Thomas Tallis (1515-85, "the father of English cathedral music") and John Haynes Holmes, Manhattan preacher and civic reformer.† Once a Unitarian, Dr. Holmes became...
Games. The country's most famed religious sect baseball team is that of the House of David (Benton Harbor, Mich.), whose members believe in letting their hair and beards grow while they await the millenium, secure in the faith of their own immortality. Many famed ballplayers, when outmoded in the big leagues, might find solace and gain in such precepts by joining the House of David baseball team which netted $40,000 one season. Against the Brooklyn Robins last month, the House of David team scored two runs in the last inning after a rally led by bush-bearded...
...first radio speech of the Pope shows how far this original Christian sect has advanced in three hundred years. The central point of the address is peace among individuals and nations. For final proof he uses the most ancient of Christian documents, but makes no distinctions between the different denominations and directs his speech toward the objective which governments have failed so dismally to attain...
Ohio. Within the fortnight Cleveland put 9,000 idle men to work. The city sent a representative to Detroit to study its advanced system of Unemployment relief (TIME, Oct. 27). Remembering their religious vow to "let no one go hungry while there is food," the Amish sect sent supplies from their farms into Cleveland...