Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said William James: "I went in curiosity for a day. I stayed for a week, held spellbound by the charm and ease of everything, by the middle-class paradise, without a sin, without a victim, without a blot, without a tear. . . . You have culture, you have kindness, you have cheapness, you have equality...
...Albany, N. Y., one Hector Sin- clair, of Eldorado, Kan., hurried into a second-hand bookstore. He had heard that the vendor possessed a copy of a work for which he had searched for over 50 years-the writings of the Jewish historian, Josephus. Hector paid $2.50, opened his book, beheld his own name on the flyleaf, recognized the volume as one he had lost...
...earth, because of sin...
...domination of the missionaries, by ejecting them from their not particularly lucrative jobs if they refuse to swear to whatever the Fundamentalists decree a Christian should swear to. And all this depends upon Dr. Stone. If the Macartney-Bryan forces can persuade Dr. Stone that it is a sin against the Holy Ghost to tolerate "liberals," Dr. Stone, a Fundamentalist, will vote with the die-hard Fundamentalists. But if their actions persuade him that brotherly love is not one of their fundamentals, he will vote against them. So, the Presbyterian Church waited for the psychological reactions of Dr. Stone...
...more effective, if idealistic, means of using the newspapers to reform a hopelessly wicked world would seem to be the adoption of a policy of rewarding virtue, rather than sin, with publicity. But hither to stories of the award of Carnegie and Congressional medals have usually served as somewhat uninteresting fillers on inside pages. And there seems to be little hope of changing the character of the daily news, for as Dr. Lee aptly said. "It is the taste of the fish and not that of the fisherman, which denotes the kind of bait to be used;" and the reading...