Word: amens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood, who kill. God . . . look into our hearts and Thou willst find love, enthusiasm, readiness for sacrifice. . . . Poland, freed from the swastika, has been captured by the hammer and sickle. Dachau and Buchenwald have been replaced by Siberian ice. . . . Poland will rise from the dead, so help us God! Amen...
...Methodist Church . . .used to be full of Pentecostal fire, and [its] public worship was filled with shouts of 'Amen' and 'Hallelujah.' Now the Nazarene and Pentecostal preachers often say that if the Methodists were as Pentecostal as they used to be, they would be glad to be Methodists...
...studding. "Friend," said Amos Pease, when at last the agony was over, "thee's been an instrument of the Lord this night. . . . Thy prayer carried us so near to heaven's gates that now and again I thought I could hear . . . the sound of heavenly harps." "Amen, Brother. Amen to that!" cried the rest of the committee, tottering exhausted through the door...
...Wisely, but Too Well. In Brookings, S.D., trustees of the Church of Christ petitioned the circuit court to keep Mr. & Mrs. Allen R. McMillan from attending services, because they disrupted worship by shouting "amen" too loudly and often...
Muttering In the Chorus. In various harsh words, other C.I.O. leaders shouted amen. John Lewis called the Truman proposal "an evil, vile-smelling mess . . . full of dozens of loopholes that would make it unworkable." Even mild Bill Green cheeped: "Unacceptable to labor...