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Word: stormfield (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committed to belief in Heaven as an ultimate reward for good, many a Christian considers it bad taste to speculate in detail upon life after death. Lacking evidence, a minister's conception of Heaven is not much more valid than was that of Mark Twain, who in Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven pictured it as a place where people do what they always wanted to do on earth; where, on sheer worth, a backwoods poet from Tennessee takes precedence over Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: After Death | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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