Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Literature and Exegesis in the Theological Seminary. He habitually attacks liberals, saying: "The Modernists believe what the great enemies of the church 50 years ago believed, but they keep the traditional terminology. Their use of the old terminology is dishonorable. They have lost the conviction of the guiltiness of sin. There will be no revival until we have a new conviction of sin...
Ever since the proverbial Eve tasted the apple, the notorious human race has been noted, for its egregious curiosity. Men in high places have suffered most from the consequences of Eve's sin. Therefore it is an ever-renewing joy when a new issue of the Congressional Directory appears, carrying the gossip which the great legislators write about themselves in their official autobiographical sketches...
...which plays are naughty and whether they are really naughty. In spite of this, the city is filled with a mighty hustle and hurly-burly of reformers, and a general movement of those who might be responsible to get out from under. With the first delicious whisper of sin, there came the sound of drums and whirring grindstones and lo, some seven self-constituted investigating agencies appeared in full panoply of war, headed by that battle-scarred veteran, John R. Sumner, the superintendent of the Society for the Suppression of Vice...
...petitioner and his counsel have made such a review impossible. Instead of pursuing this plain remedy for injustice that may have been done by the trial Judge and securing by an appellate court a review of this very serious question on the merits, they sought by applying to a sin He Judge of only coordinate authority for a writ of habeas corpus to release the petition on the ground that the trial Judge was without jurisdiction to make the decision he did. This raised the sole issue whether the trial Judge had authority to decide the question, not whether...
...Uplift of Moral Virtue and the Suppression of Unwarranted Pleasure" managed to get that paper to print a letter advocating coffee-prohibition. "Brain-numbing and soui-destroying brew" he terms this fluid, and ends that inasmuch as the Bible does not state that coffee drinking is not a sin it "must be classed with other licentious habits". If Mark Twain were alive today Mr. Fillmore's article would certainly have been attributed to him: it is absolutely typical of America's best-loved humorist...