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...Shaw. Born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1811, son of a Vermont Congressman, he was educated at Dartmouth, Andover and New Haven, came into conflict with established religion formulating the doctrine of Perfectionism, which held that moral perfection was attainable on earth. This was in direct opposition to prevailing "miserable sinner" Christianity. Awkward, shy, redhaired, Noyes neverthe-less won enthusiastic followers, particularly among women. A period of acute economic distress made a profound influence on him, led him to declare, "Heaven must begin on earth soon, or Hell will...
...favorite hymn of the Southern Methodists: Spirit of faith, come down, reveal the things of God; And make to us the Godhead known, and witness with the blood. 'Tis thine the blood to apply, and give us eyes to see, Who did for every sinner die, hath surely died for me. The favorite Negro Methodist hymn: Joy is a fruit that will not grow In nature's barren soil; All we can boast, till Christ we know, Is vanity and toil...
...hundred and fifty Manhattan bankers, businessmen, editors and miscellaneous bigwigs had fun initiating New York's short, swart Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia into the Circus Saints & Sinners, a club whose underlying purpose is to fit out a home for retired circus performers. Under a tent in the Hotel Gotham, Marionettist Tony Sarg set a small gilt chair in a five-foot sawdust ring, set Mayor LaGuardia on the chair. Cried Ringmaster Sarg: "Do you think he has enough hair to be Mayor?" Chorused the Saints & Sinners: "No." Ringmaster Sarg clapped a grey wig on the Mayor, added the fur trimmed...
...Farley as if he were a sore thumb on the morally well manicured hand of the New Deal. In an Administration whose chief attitude is that of being "holier than 1929" he stands out as one who makes no pretense of being other than an old-fashioned political sinner. He might point out. however, that according to the tenets of his church, confessed sinners, even the worst of them, who have the right faith in their hearts, have a better chance of getting to Heaven than Pharisees. And Mr. Farley is neither the worst of sinners nor is he without...
...future sin. According to Catholic doctrine, an indulgence is the remission in whole or in part of temporal punishment (in Purgatory) for sins whose guilt has already been forgiven. It may be a plenary indulgence, granted only by the Pope, remitting all punishment; or a partial indulgence releasing the sinner from a certain number of days or years of it. This method of reckoning indulgences is based on the Early Christian custom of expiating sins with public-penance which often lasted days and even years. Based upon Scripture, the theory of indulgence is that the "Treasury" of the Church...