Word: swedenborgianism
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...scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body in a coffee sack, his head in a tin pot, who took Swedenborgian Bibles to the Indians and in 46 years of roaming planted fruitful apple pips over 100,000 square miles of Middle America...
...people marry? Not-so the Rev. Paul Dresser of Bath, Maine, aroused the National Council of Swedenborgian Ministers, meeting at Cincinnati, last week, by telling them-not solely for the procreation of children. "Marriage itself, in its purity, is the precious jewel of the Christian religion, and is heaven on earth." Mr. Dresser went on to quote Mrs. Margaret Sanger on the race of morons which is threatening our civilization. Said he: ''God only knows, how many hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children are born every year, of whom it could truthfully be said...
Except for Mr. Dresser's provocative paper on Birth Control-a subject now agitating several churches-the annual Swedenborgian convention was uneventful. But this proved sufficient cause to recapture from historical lore the name by which this smallest of sects is known: Emmanuel Swedenborg, of Sweden, who was poet, mystic, mathematician, physician, statesman, inventor-almost everything but a Malthusian...
OUTWARD BOUND-Creepily thrilling and adequately played drama which makes the hereafter a Swedenborgian sequel to life...
Other churches represented were: Christian, Swedenborgian, Reform Jewish, Ethical Culture, Quakers, Dutch Reform, Evangelist, Buddhist, Greek, Hindu, Moravian, Disciplers, Reform Church. Of these, none were represented by more than nine...