Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history is silent on the point, Author Kantor gives his hero the credit of killing General Armistead. Bale found his man, not dead but badly wounded. The three days' fateful thunders had been too much for his mistress's conscience and she was glad to expiate her sin by nursing her crippled husband. Bale took a oneway ticket back to the West...
...completely against Calvinism. When her fiancé was drowned in a shipwreck, she declined to believe a preacher who told her "God has answered all his benevolent purposes by his death, and all is well.'' Catherine refuted Jonathan Edwards on free will, denied the doctrine of original sin, and set about improving the educational opportunities of U. S. females. She founded five schools, was one of the first progressive educators, wrote a best-selling treatise on housekeeping...
...Immaculate Conception is one which is held only by the Roman Catholic Church. The Virgin Birth refers, of course, to the birth of Christ, while the Immaculate Conception refers to the birth of Mary, the mother of Christ, and holds that Mary was born free from all original sin. Protestants believe, of course, that Mary was a normal, God-fearing woman who was honored by being selected to be the mother of our Lord...
...Journal above the State of Kentucky." Said he: "The names of the writers of such communications are confidential. They give their names to the editor in the belief that confidence will not be betrayed and it will not." After further attempts to browbeat Editor Armentrout into committing the unpardonable sin of journalism, the committee ordered a sergeant-at-arms to take him to the Frankfort jail...
...Wolsey,' argued Henry, 'You'd think the queen would feel frightened, wouldn't you? I would do her a service if I divorced her! It would save her soul! It would wake her from sin! By God's nails, Wolsey, if she were as religious as I she would 'a' seen it herself!'" Don Marquis makes the bawdy, likeable, blundering king whose amours changed the history of Europe, a human and understandable figure. And the style has the same joyous satirical fillip that made Mohitabel America's favorite gay lady...