Word: tempter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very unsatanic friend, who nevertheless resembled Job's tempter in that he had done much going to and fro upon the earth, once described to me an extraordinary scene witnessed while he was sojourning in a distant wilderness. A hungry native, coming by chance upon a bowl of plantains or beetle larvae or some such delicacy, had thanked his tutelar deity for the good fortune and had dined with gusto. But his gastronomic joy was short-lived. A few hours later, a horror stricken fellow tribesman informed him that he had violated tabu, that he had eaten of the dish...
...chapter a day keeps the tempter away" was the bright promise of the St. Louis branch of the Federal Council of Churches, announcing simultaneous Bible-reading revivals to run throughout January and February in all U. S. evangelical churches. Beginning with the kindly gospel of Physician-Saint Luke, readers will pass on to the marvels of The Acts, the two books invoked...