Pentecost Hugh Contributors Include William (3 results)

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the March 24, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 12) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Hugh O. Pentecost and published by the Twentieth Century Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 9" by 12-1/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorials by Hugh O. Pentecost - "House Bill No. 245" ("It appears that the Hon. Joseph M. Engard, representative of the second assembly district of New Jersey, introduced to the legislature of that State House Bill No. 425, entitled 'An act for the punishment of any person carrying a red flag in any demonstration or procession on any public street or highway in the state'"), "Dawning Intelligence Among English Miners," and "The Censorship of Mail Matter"; "Is Charity Wicked?" by G. C. [Gaspar Christopher] Clemens [active with the Kansas Populist Party and later Socialist] ("Within a stone's-throw of where I write is an orphans' home, supported by charity, where poor, innocent victims of social wrong find a home they could not otherwise have. If charity be stopped, every such institution must close"); "Beautiful Religion" by A. S. Hudson ("Religion means exactly what it is, and what its root implies. It means the trade-mark of mental slavery"); "World's Fair Exhibits" by American anarchist Lizzie M. Holmes; short "A Practical Test" by Albert Chavannes; "Two Sample Presbyterians" (on Charles Henry Parkhurst and Jay Gould - "A lecture delivered at Berkeley Lyceum, Sunday evening, February 28, by Henry Frank, lecturer for the Society of Human Progress"); Fiction "Felix: A Study in 'Karma'" by Hudor Genone [William James Roe]; Correspondence (including letters from Evacustes A. Phipson [Edward Arthur Phipson] and William H. Galvani); Our Weekly News-Letter. A complete issue; former owner's name to upper right corner of front cover; covers light to moderately soiled, particularly along edge areas; short narrow chip to upper right corner of front cover; interior pages age-toned.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the March 10, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 10) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Hugh O. Pentecost and published by the Twentieth Century Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 12-1/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial (on "The [Henry] Frank-[Hugh O.] Pentecost Discussion" - "Owing to the absence of Mr. Pentecost from the city and his consequent inability to furnish editorial matter for this issue, the following series of letters have been arranged by him to take the place of his regular contribution. They indicate the interest of our readers in the discussion and show how opinions differ"); article "Mr. [Hugh O.] Pentecost's Logic" by Henry Frank from the Society of Human Progress (which begins: "It has come. I knew it would. The genial Pentecost pronounces me insane"); article "Jesus, Paul, and the Resurrection" by A.S. Hudson, M.D. ("The authors of the gospels and the New Testament were Greek and Latin priests and wrote in their own tongue"); article "Capital Punishment" by S.W. Cooper; article "Free Speech in Real Life" by Herbert Foster; article "The Virtue of Extravagance" by Willis Hudspeth; article "Creeds and Governments" by William H. Galvani; article "Government by Aliens: An Answer to Bishop Coxe" by A.P. Rose ["To be concluded next week"]; Fiction "Charles Study's Wanderings - Sketch I. The Court Room" by Bart Kennedy; "Our Weekly News-Letter" (from various publications); update from the Society of Human Progress. A complete issue; former owner's name to upper right corner of front cover; covers lightly soiled, particularly along edge areas; interior pages age-toned.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 25, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 8) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Hugh O. Pentecost and published by the Twentieth Century Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 12-1/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial by Hugh O. Pentecost (the topics are: "Concerning Rev. Mr. Law's Letter" ["Another letter from the Rev. Sidney G. Law will be found in this issue"]; "Concerning Mr. [Henry] Frank and the Divine Potentialities"); lengthy poem "To Arms" by 19th century peace activist Ida Whipple Benham; article "A Great Land Conspiracy" by William H. Galvani (which begins, "Among the blessings of the United States government is its instrumentality in making it possible to rapidly develop the 'magnificent' resources within ITS domain. So claim its prominent representatives, the army of office holders. They point with pride to the 'grand' results achieved by the encouragement THEY gave to regularly incorporated companies, whose 'public spirited' enterprise has supplied 'this great land of ours' with the modern transportation lines - railways. Let us see how much of a blessing this encouragement has been to the American sovereigns"); a collection of "Musings" by atheist and freethinker Otto Wettstein (i.e., "Agnosticism is cowardly, unreasonable, and debasing. It places a reasonable, logical, necessary, honest unbelief on a par with a superstitious faith which it itself pronounces false and unreasonable"); "Another Letter From the Rev. Sidney G. Law"; musings entitled "Diversions of Opinion" by Hudor Genone (William James Roe); article "Of What Does Patriotism Consist?" by Edward P. Faxon; short "The Colossus" by Bart Kennedy; Correspondence (including letters from Eleanor F. Baldwin and Eliza B. Burnz); Our Weekly News-Letter (news from various publications). A complete issue; former owner's name in pencil to upper right corner of front cover; covers light to moderately soiled, particularly along edge areas; small corner chip to rear cover; interior pages age-toned.