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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...procession of the Lord was marching through Sheffield, England. At its head was a brass band blaring hymns from atop a wagon; next, on a white horse, came the onetime champion wrestler of Northumberland, now a convert to God. After him in a carriage rode the Generals William and Catherine Booth, and behind marched the uniformed soldiers of their Salvation Army. Then the Devil attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Honor Declined. He survived to carry on the Lord's work in western Canada, China and Japan. He was in the mountains near Tokyo when the earthquake of 1923 rocked the island, and he plunged into the work of relief. After eight years he was brought back home, and later made financial secretary of the army's U.S. Central Territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...thought comes to me that William McCarthy, self-styled atheist, is by his own claims extremely busy "giving the Lord (a mythical deity) hell" (a portion of a nonexistent place of retribution). And Don Quixote tilted at windmills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Arkansas' Governor Sidney McMath, 37, arrived in Manhattan to confer a special honor of his state, the title "Arkansas Traveler," on a Center Point, Ark. girl: department store Bigwig Dorothy Shaver, president of Fifth Avenue's Lord & Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Restless Foot | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...words of St. Paul (Galatians 6:17), "From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus," have led to some speculation that he may have carried the stigmata (Latin for marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Stigmatist | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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