Word: zion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christians, "Zion" means a holy city not of this world. To Jews, Zion connotes a temporal though still only potential refuge. Political Zionism, begun by Theodor Herzl in 1896, not only roused the Jewish national consciousness but made the world increasingly aware that Jews, citizens of every country, had no homeland of their own. After Allenby's last crusade had wrested Palestine from the Turk, the Balfour Declaration (1917) seemed to recognize Jewish rights to at least a share in the modern Canaan. But under the rule of the British mandate both Jew and Arab were irked. Growing...
...potent soul-saving organizations came into conflict last week. Battling for souls on its home ground was Wilbur Glenn Voliva's Christian Catholic Apostolic Church of Zion City, Ill. The invading soul-hunter was Aimee Semple McPherson's Four-Square Church from California, represented by Sister Essie Locy, "Trumpeting Evangelist," who set up headquarters in Waukegan, North of Chicago and just south of Zion City...
...revival meetings, playing hymns on her silver trumpet. As an additional lure she stated these meetings were exact duplicates of those Sister McPherson was holding in the Angelus Temple at Los Angeles. At the end of each session Sister Locy called upon the faithful to come forward, rejoiced as Zion-deserters increased...
Until last week, when Evangelist McPherson sought a California charter for a $1,500,000 hotel corporation, nothing she has attempted is so pretentious as the Apostolic Church of Zion. Bankrupt in 1907 on the death of First Prophet John Alexander Dowie (who stoutly insisted that the devil was a Methodist), Zion City has regained its solvency under rising real estate values and the shrewd rule of Overseer Voliva. Tall, stern-faced, he runs the city of 6,300 on a communal plan, renting the land under 1,100-year leases and controlling the few industries. A feature...
...Borah on Zion. Most potent of Jewish demonstrations last week was a meeting of 25,000 (including many a Gentile) who jammed Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and roared approval of a tactful telegram read on behalf of President Herbert Hoover (see p. 11). Slouching forward to keynote from the platform came famed Friend-of-Oppressed-Peoples William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. Said...