Word: sin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pledge In Litchfield, III., Pastor L. A. Crown preached on "Litchfield's Worst Sin-Ingratitude," pledged husbands of the Union Avenue Christian Church to kiss their wives twice daily for six weeks...
...could we sin that had not been, or how is his sin...
...hearing far too much of this supposed gospel of leisure. A true gospel of leisure will say that much may be found in work itself. . . . Vigor belongs to spirituality and indolence belongs to sin. Since when has youth come to demand security and ceased to cry just for opportunity? . . . A mania has seized men to get things and do things easily. . . . God alone can change human lives and the church must learn to put this truth into practice...
...observe that it would be nice to be struck by lightning while reading the Bible. He said he would rather bury someone than marry him. Frightened and distressed at this cheery conversation, Eleanor and her sister were even more put out when their father, desiring to warn them against sin, would remark dolefully that he would rather see them in their grave than doing any one of a great number of things- using rouge, receiving the attentions of boys, kissing, being bad generally. Finally they came to believe that their father would rather see them in their grave than doing...
...Midsummer Night's Dream" makes the pretentious effort of visualizing for the spectator what William Shakespeare expected him to imagine. There are undoubtedly those who would object to the change of intellectual grounds, considering it a sin to keep the bard from being hard. But Max Reinhardt must be allowed a high degree of success in just what he attempted: catching the aery unreality of the dream...