June 10th, 1930
July 5th, 1954
This same article appeared in another paper, but it had room to include the two last lines of the story: ”She has been under religious excitement for several weeks and has been almost constantly praying. It is thought the boy will die from exposure.”
February 27th, 1901
(MRA was the Moral Re-Armament group.)
January 11th, 1940
July 2nd, 1950
June 22nd, 1960
November 25th, 1949
May 24th, 1972
![The Rev. Frank Sanford is quite a colorful character with big apocalyptic ideas. In this wiki link we find that this sect lives on to this day.
“While his manslaughter case was still in the courts, Sandford purchased the racing yacht Coronet, an extravagantly appointed schooner, for $10,000—raised in the usual Shiloh manner by prayer, “in this case, forty days and nights of it, with shifts for eating and sleeping.”[65] Sandford made two quick trips to Jerusalem in 1905-06, but when his legal difficulties had ended, he and his thirty selected crewmen and passengers (including his wife and five children) circumnavigated the globe on what he described as a missionary journey.[66] It was an unconventional missionary enterprise. No one went ashore to preach the Gospel or even distribute religious literature. Sandford intended to “subdue the world for Christ” by intercessory prayer, claiming nations and isles for Christ by sounding brass instruments as they passed by.[67] Oddly, Sandford added a taxidermist to a crew of reasonably experienced seamen, and he included on a ship already filled to capacity both “eyes for stuffed animals and birds” and a large harp on which he took lessons.[68] There were moments of real peril, as when the Coronet fought its way through the thundering seas around Cape Horn and then again after a powerful gale broke the main sheet and (indirectly) part of the mast almost immediately after Sandford had shot an albatross.[69] During calmer periods, Sandford had leisure enough to hunt and receive an occasional vision”
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The Rev. Frank Sanford is quite a colorful character with big apocalyptic ideas. In this wiki link we find that this sect lives on to this day.
“While his manslaughter case was still in the courts, Sandford purchased the racing yacht Coronet, an extravagantly appointed schooner, for $10,000—raised in the usual Shiloh manner by prayer, “in this case, forty days and nights of it, with shifts for eating and sleeping.”[65] Sandford made two quick trips to Jerusalem in 1905-06, but when his legal difficulties had ended, he and his thirty selected crewmen and passengers (including his wife and five children) circumnavigated the globe on what he described as a missionary journey.[66] It was an unconventional missionary enterprise. No one went ashore to preach the Gospel or even distribute religious literature. Sandford intended to “subdue the world for Christ” by intercessory prayer, claiming nations and isles for Christ by sounding brass instruments as they passed by.[67] Oddly, Sandford added a taxidermist to a crew of reasonably experienced seamen, and he included on a ship already filled to capacity both “eyes for stuffed animals and birds” and a large harp on which he took lessons.[68] There were moments of real peril, as when the Coronet fought its way through the thundering seas around Cape Horn and then again after a powerful gale broke the main sheet and (indirectly) part of the mast almost immediately after Sandford had shot an albatross.[69] During calmer periods, Sandford had leisure enough to hunt and receive an occasional vision”
October 14th, 1906
We love it when stories like this pop up. You go searching for something totally unrelated and wind up bumping into a story that has relevance to the present day.
Here’s Aimee’s wiki page. And here is a link to the new musical, written by Kathy Lee Gifford, which just opened last week at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater, Saving Aimee.
September 12th, 1927
Word of the day: interlarding
October 14, 1907
August 18th, 1908
May 15th, 1914
This is essentially a story about Microsoft not liking how Apple is marketing their product. Only this is in 1936 and about the Catholic church in direct competition with “fascism”. No one is calling Microsoft or Apple “fascist” here. However, control of humans and what they think/obsess over has always been an obsession of both the church and the fascistic tendencies of business. If you think of the Vatican as essentially a brand, an ancient, ancient brand, you can kind of get it. One needn’t think of the Catholic Church as a religion too much. Look at it as a 1700 year old brand and business. Fascism here was simply trying to do a corporate merge. Trying to get you to choose Coke instead of Pepsi. All of this would soon culminate in what we think of as WWII and the holocaust in a few short years and many would die in their battle for supremacy. IMO.
August 14th, 1936
August 6th, 1935
