Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the right use of sex contributes to the happiness as well as to the life of human beings, but it demands that it should be treated with reverence and respect as the means God has ordained for the creation of His children. It therefore condemns fornication as a sin for it misuses for momentary pleasure what was intended both as an expression of abiding love and for the creation of new life. . . . We therefore call upon all who claim to be followers of Christ to take their stand against this sin...
...loyalty to their Master they must bear their witness against practices, amusements and conversations that assume fornication is natural . . . must be loyal to the Christian standard-namely, all sexual intercourse except between man and wife is sin...
...while we condemn the sin we understand how great are the temptations to which many are now subject. . . . God will give help to those who pray to Him, and to those who have yielded to temptation He offers pardon if they are truly penitent...
...interested. He was Edward A. Golden, a chubby, John Bunnyish old gentleman who had been a dentist for five years, a film distributor for 30. Distributor Golden had taken a shy at production not long before with a for-adults-only sermon on syphilis entitled No Greater Sin. The minute Golden read Education he knew it would make a picture. He even knew the title: Hitler's Children. That afternoon he gave Author Ziemer's agent $250 for a month's option on the film rights. Next day he started making the rounds of Hollywood...
...newspaper. It also reports the help she gets, in dire extremity, from a hobo ex-journalist (James Gagney). En-route to victory the hobo develops an interest in the old lady's niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those cinemaddicts who like James Cagney chiefly for his fleet footwork and persuasive paws. As a period document, Johnny Come Lately bogs down neither in history nor documentation. Its historicity is chiefly an excuse for an unusual...