Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert, beauteous wife of the recently resigned Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., gave a large birthday party for her favorite horse, St. John the Baptist. St. John appeared at the party in a wreath of white carnations, eyed suspiciously a guest horse named Easter Sunday, several beribboned dogs...
Into an operating room of Manhattan's gorgeous Doctors Hospital famed diagnostician Henry Harlow Brooks, rotund and haggard, was wheeled last Sunday. Long a professor in New York University Medical College, unusually skilful in the treatment of heart disease, Dr. Brooks, 65, had just returned to Manhattan from Miami. Feeling uncommonly weary he at first decided that he had caught the grippe in the South. But three other able diagnosticians and three able surgeons, all six professors in their specialties, decided that their doctor-patient suffered with an abscessed liver...
Thus, on what most historians agreed was the 1,903rd anniversary of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the orthodox Christian world celebrated the miracle of Easter in the orthodox way. Simultaneously in Ollerup, Denmark, a U. S. man of God, famed for his unorthodoxy, made Easter Sunday, 1936, the occasion for his mightiest evangelistic effort to date...
Called "Principal" because he is head of an independent theological college, Jeffreys is a literal Bible-believer, practices baptism by immersion (see cut, p. 38). Years ago he suffered a facial paralysis. Studying for the Congregational ministry, he was praying one Sunday when he suddenly felt a powerful "electric shock" which cured him. In the past nine years some 160 persons have solemnly sworn that Principal Jeffreys healed them of paralysis, blindness, tumors, cancers...
...Roman Catholics the 40 days of Lent mean frequent light meals, frequent meatless meals. To most Unitarians and Congregationalists Lent involves no extraordinary self-denial. In recent years churches of the middle ground-Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist-have observed Lent with increasing mystical piety. Last week Easter Sunday brought joyous release to a Methodist minister whose Lenten fast had caused him as much belt-tightening as Catholics experience. However, Rev. William H. Alderson, supervisor of the Methodist Church on Long Island's North Shore, had curbed his appetite for economic as well as religious reasons. For 40 days Methodist...