Word: satanically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Cockcrow: one swears he knows Him not; Thence is a Church begot.)- was the angel Gabriel in disguise-who crew also in Eden when Eve plucked the forbidden fruit, and will crow again ("in the days of great persecution of the Jews, and of intestine wars") when Satan, soul nauseated by his triumphant corruption of the world, prays God to put an end to mankind. Since Gabriel's first cockcrow, seven Messiahs have done their miraculous best to redeem mankind. But their efforts only went to convince Donne in the 17th Century-and only go to reconvince Olson...
...years between two wars showed in Raemaekers' charcoal stick, if not in his words. Where once he drew blood, desolation, barbed wire, ravished women, a demoniacal Kaiser, he now pictured the forces of the world in abstract, often obvious, images. Churchill was a bluff skipper, Stalin a leering Satan, Hitler a skeleton, the U. S. Isolationist something like a village idiot. A devout Roman Catholic, Raemaekers seemed increasingly preoccupied with the lonely, grave figure of Jesus wandering through the world...
...Great Herrmann, not Kellar, not Thurston, not Houdini was able to make a good thing of a magic show on Broadway, and for the past 13 years Broadway has seen no full-size illusionist's performance. Undaunted, a miraculous hoodwinker who looks a little like Satan on stage and a little like Buffalo Bill off, who used to call himself The Great Jansen and who now bills himself as Dante, sailed into the Times Square district last week and set up Sim Sola Bim, a "mystery spectacle." Widely advertised as meaning "thanks to you" in Danish, Sim Sala...
Smallest sect reporting was the Friends (Primitive), whose lone congregation had 14 members. Most remarkable sect: the Two -Seed -in -the -Spirit Predestinarian Baptists (16 churches, 201 members), who believe that Adam & Eve were infused with a "good seed" from God, that Eve received a "bad seed" from Satan. Since everyone is born of either a good seed or a bad seed, and nothing can be done about it, this church does no gospel preaching, no missionary work...
...Persecution of Witnesses merely strengthens them in their belief that they are battling the hosts of Satan, that the millennium is drawing nigh, and that in the great battle of Armageddon-due any day now-the wicked will perish and Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved. "They do not wait to be thrown to the lions; they walk into the lions' den, and bat its occupants over the head with the complete works of Judge Rutherford...