Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure that a visiting college group could not have been better received anywhere. There will be a real comradeship in future years, thanks to the spirit of friendship so well generated in 1928. Sincerely yours, Louis A. Craig, Major, F. A. Professor of Military Science
...Nicholas, be Tsar!" But spirit was not in the weakling. When the Empire collapsed Maria Feodorovna removed to the Crimea, later departing on a British gunboat to seek sanctuary with her sister, the Dowager Queen-Empress Alexandra...
...supernatural was in evidence. The new Chief Executive simply bowed three times before a portrait of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen (founder of the Nationalist Party), swore to uphold Dr. Sun's famed Three Nationalist Principles, and finally invoked three times as a potent witness the spirit of SUN YATSEN. When President Chiang had thus sworn, he was followed in the same ritual by five lesser Presidents, each of whom will administer one of the five Yuans into which the Nationalists have now divided China for executive purposes...
...military phase of the Nationalist Revolution is victoriously terminated. Everything now depends upon a continued spirit of unity among the people and within the Party. . . . Party members, when dissatisfied with any branch of the National Administration, should first advance their views in a friendly spirit in the expectation that it will be accepted. Failing this they may try the proper recourse through party headquarters. When such measure again fails, pressure may be brought to bear upon the Central Executive Committee of the party to reorganize the whole Government. But on no occasion shall party members attempt directly to interfere with...
...spirit was lively, vibrant, domineering. Such are qualities religious chiefs since Mohammed have had. They stir their crowds; they tingle their emotions; they daze their thoughts; they get. adulation and money. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young did that with the Mormons, John and Charles Wesley with the Methodists, Moody and Sankey with the evangelicals, Mrs. Eddy with the Christian Scientists. Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford is doing likewise with the International Bible Students, Mrs. Annie Besant with the Theosophists, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson with the Four Square Gospellers. Theirs have been as much a profession of new business as a profession...