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...Harriet Elizabeth Scott, 75, who had just died of pneumonia, decided to bury her in Little Sandy Cemetery near her Taylorsville home five miles away. Bitterly her son Hugh, 57, World War veteran protested that her dying wish had been to be buried in nearby Nazareth Cemetery. Overruled, he stalked into the night. Near dawn he returned, burst in among the kinsmen keeping the death watch, brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse's saddle and galloped away. A posse found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 20, 1936 | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

However, the shock came to me when I discovered that I had participated in the same cruise, that I had associated with the same Dr. Morrison on several occasions in our travel expeditions and that I was with him in Nazareth, possibly on the same day; and the Franciscan guide who acted as our cicerone was extremely scientific, insisting that these places were only traditional sites, with no great certitude connected with any given spot. Certainly, he mentioned nothing about the actual pillars and definite places. It is unfortunate that Dr. Morrison met up with an exception. It is doubly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1935 | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

...continue as a vital force in American life, it must extract the virtues from existing institutions and build a better future on them." This is indeed a dangerous doctrine, all the more so because of its prevalence among our leaders today. Your editor will recall that Jesus of Nazareth didn't attempt to "extract the virtues from existing institutions." Quite the contrary, he fought the two most powerful of these institutions with all the physical and intellectual force which he could command. These two institutions were the Money-changers and the Sacrificial Meat Trust. His fight against these institutions went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dissenting Zealots | 10/26/1934 | See Source »

Childless for 20 years were a rich & pious couple of Nazareth named Joachim and Hannah (Anne). Repulsed from the temple for his childlessness, Joachim one day went out into the mountains and groaned before his God. When Hannah learned why Joachim did not come home she, too, cried to the Lord to take away her curse, promising her child to His service. To Hannah at home, to Joachim in the mountains appeared angels, promising that their prayer would be answered, their child be blessed by all the world. Then Hannah conceived, gave birth to a daughter whom she named Miriam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Grandmother | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...presented it to the "Mission Band'' headed by Father Murphy. Because only 9,000 of North Carolina's 3,000,000 population are Roman Catholics, Father Murphy takes his car into many a section where a priest has never before been seen. From his headquarters at Nazareth, N. C. he goes out for a week or two with an assistant and a Negro cook. Besides the chapel seating 75, ST. PETER contains a study a kitchen, sleeping quarters. Often dependent upon freight trains for a lift from siding to siding. Father Murphy pay: a minimum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: ST. PETER | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

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