Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father, Anna (supposedly of the priestly house of Aaron) was her mother. Late in life, after angelic visitations, to Anna and Joachim was born a daughter, Mary. Roman Catholic dogma says that she was herself immaculately conceived.? Early theologians, while maintaining the freedom of Mary from earthly sin, held that she was born like all mortals with the taint of the original sin. How else, they argued, could she have been redeemed by Christ? From her third to her twelfth year (according to the same source) Mary dwelt in the temple; when she became of nubile age, Joseph...
...slight sin...
Bishop of Armagh, Ireland: "Satan made no mistake here in subjecting the fairest of our creation to ridicule, contempt, sin and perdition. Woman has never degraded herself as she has in this costume. Instead of giving us beauty it lowers woman below the lowest of the human family and even suggests a loss of holy purity...
...value to socioligists and others having a legitimate interest in the subject has been left out--a comparison of derelictions in student life compared with those outside. It is plainer than ever before that this publication is using the colleges as fair game for creating an illusion of gilded sin, just as magazines of an earlier age created the myths of "high society...
...milk. I just give everything I've got. I'm weak when I come out. But I go and pray to Jesus and get all charged up like a battery." Thus spoke alluring Aimee Semple McPherson in Manhattan last week when she began her conquest of sin there. Said an oldtimer: "I've heard 'em all ... She's the only one of the lot can touch Henry Ward Beecher...