Word: sin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, Publisher Doran had a big enough story?for the version which he announced is the first complete translation of the Old Testament into modern English. Thus, for example, "The City of David" is translated "Davidsburg;" and here begins the account of David's sin...
...with which the beast is killed, the meat is not strictly kosher, nor is it if the slaughterer be a deaf mute, an idiot, a minor, or a non-Jew. How can all these things be surely ascertained in regard, say, to a lamb chop? Is unknowing transgression a sin? That was what the packers wanted to know...
Cardinal Logue could laugh heartily. Once, examining a group of tradesmen for confirmation, he asked whether it would not be a sin to conceal the defects of a donkey to a prospective purchaser...
...Straton. The contribution of Dr. Straton was an open confession of his dissolute youth. "I was deep in sin, loving sin, following sin and living for sin . . .", and all on account of articles in magazines. Dr. Straton averred that religion had redeemed him, but that such articles continue. He particularized The World's Work, The Century, the staid Atlantic Monthly as prints that are putting "into the literary and intellectual pot enough poison from their wild gourds to utterly destroy the people...
...Christianity could not survive another war. A young Mexican, one Herbert M. Sein, pitched his voice high, shrilly shrieked, vaticinated: "the revolt of fighters and workers?the great refusal to fight?will make the war stage collapse." To place flags in churches is barbarous, to pray for victory a sin, said he. Realizing that such talk defeats its purpose, the Alliance officials quieted the youth, sent him home...