Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made last week while Dr. Ironside's work was on the presses. By the terms of the contest it was a "scholarly, up-to-date, popular treatise" written from a conservative standpoint, Mrs. Shepard being a stout Fundamentalist. Called Except Ye Repent, Dr. Ironside's broadside against sin and irreligion states its thesis thus : "To repent is to change one's attitude toward self, toward sin, toward God, toward Christ." Reason why Harry Ironside forgot the American Tract Society's prize contest was that last summer he spent, in the Holy Land, his first vacation...
Sixty-six years ago the populous city of Buffalo provided almost unparalleled conveniences for its inhabitants. It had approximately one saloon for every 220 citizens, male and female, infantile, adult and senile. Its facilities for gambling and original sin were on a similar scale. In this situation a 33-year-old lawyer made a difficult decision. He was rated one of the ablest young men at the Buffalo bar, had been assistant district attorney and might well have looked forward to an election as district attorney or even to Congress. But he decided to run for the hack...
...Christian Churches sin against the image of the Lord in preaching the brotherhood of man and in sending pious missionaries to Central Africa until our higher culture will even there have been made a foul brood of bastards...
This is, to say the least, unfortunate. This business of him who is without sin throwing the first stone may be all very well, but a false idea of politeness has detracted and still does detract from the greatest good of the greatest number--the vaudeville artist of today cannot be trusted to take absence of applause as a request for his departure, especially as someone in the audience (and he needs to be spoken to, too) always thinks everything is funny...
Though their sin is less...