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...only three remained in good standing last week: the Crown Prince's eldest, Gustaf Adolf, who is safely and royally married but childless; his unmarried youngest, Carl Johan; and unmarried first cousin Carl. Royalty's joke of the week was that the Bernadottes were playing "Going to Jerusalem" for the throne...
...fall of Jericho took place in 1400 B.C. In 1927 A.D. a stocky, bustling, bemonocled Englishman set a party of diggers to work on the site. He was Sir Charles Marston, 66, Justice of Peace, officer in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, fellow of the Society of Antiquarians, maker of Sunbeam automobiles and bicycles. A member of the House of Laity of the Church of England Assembly, Sir Charles is a hearty believer in the Holy Bible. Since 1925 he has spent a fortune on archaeological expeditions in Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Syria, to bolster up Biblical lore...
...figures. But Dr. John Raleigh Mott is. For his work as an organizer and inspirational leader in foreign missions he is famed from the Oasis of Helwan in Egypt to Herrnhut in Germany. As an active Y. M. C. A. man his influence has been felt from Finland to Jerusalem. Called "this Ulysses of modern missionaries" by the Bishop of Ely, Dr. Mott needs a good big book to move around in. Such a biography was published last month, a respectful "official" one by Basil Mathews, British religious journalist...
...wilds of South America, that one fine morning he ran away from home. Though he never got to South America he encountered plenty of wild characters. Some of them: the Cheeser, Ishmael-like religious fanatic; Kelly, the Brother of the Universal Spirit; Col. Harrison, who ran a New Jerusalem for tramps, partly because he felt like it, partly to irritate his wife; Lily, a high-class harlot, who became Jack's idealized light-o'-love; the London hermit who lived in a vacant lot and ate garbage, a onetime chartered accountant who had left wife and job because...
Liberals, beginning with a comparatively small number of Universalist, Unitarian and New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) churches, have come to include also the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) and all such "Philosophical Cults" as Baha'i, Spiritualism, Theosophy. Present membership...