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This book takes no text; it employs no plot to give it body, no characters to give it blood and spirit. Its subject is the continent of Africa; and its strangeness proves once more the truth of an ancient apothegm concerning truth and fiction. Written in the manner of a novel and cast in the pattern of a travelogue, it belongs to that obscure hinterland of literature that W. H. Hudson visited in Green Mansions and Defoe, to a certain extent, in Robinson Crusoe...
Science was challenged by an English divine, John D. Jones. He preached on the text: They limited the Holy One of Israel. Now, said he, Science sets a limit to God's power, but: "I will set no limit to God's power. . . . Let us treat...
Today, England is discussing most seriously the subject of faith-healing, for it was on that subject that Dr. Lang chose to address the Congress of the British Medical Association. His text was: "From the Most High cometh healing." He flatly predicted a "great revival of healing through faith made active by self-discipline and prayer." He brought to witness "the remarkable results of the potency of the Spirit" in the U. S. and the British dominions. He called upon the British doctors to investigate. The doctors refused. The Daily News, the Westminster Gazette, the Morning Post took...
...Cleveland, which was adopted with a roar. Unlike the Republican and Democratic platforms of some 6,000 words each, the LaFollette document, in its entirety, is composed of less than 1,000 words. Excerpts are given from the prologue and peroration; the 14 planks appear in full text...
...following summary of the platform wherever possible words and phrases are taken verbatim from the text; assertions are printed in ordinary roman type, promises in italics...