Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The corridors outside the cells of Seattle's King County jail were filled with dozens of Sunday visitors. To the accompaniment of banjos, violins and portable organs, they sang hymns. "Nothing but the blood of Jesus will wash away my sins," warbled one woman.
"And then putting our honorable generals and admirals on trial in Nuremberg, hanging and imprisoning them for merely obeying orders like good soldiers, and calling it justice. Ach, terrible, inhuman. And what were you Americans doing while we fought to keep the Bolsheviks out of Europe? You were bombing our...
¶Christianity must purge itself of "accidental Western accessories" and of its feeling of uniqueness if it is to be accepted in the future, said Historian Arnold J. Toynbee at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. "We treat Christianity as if its virtue were not derived from being Christian, but...
The Christian Middle Ages at first simply and starkly re-enacted Christ's burial. Later, the ceremonials of death became complicated, e.g., many families employed a "sin-eater" who took the dead man's sins upon himself by eating a loaf of bread and drinking a bowl of...
Forgotten Man. Were the thousands who hit the sawdust trail much different from what they were before they hit? Author William G. McLoughlin Jr., a political science professor at Brown University and Billy Sunday's first full-dress biographer, believes that most of the "converts" were already pious members...