Word: apostleship
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...What with such ranking deities as Father Obey, Elijah of the Fiery Chariot, St. John the Vine, and Joe World, among many others, the heavenly host could hardly muster enough worshipers to go around. So George, an itinerant lawn mower and hedge clipper from Georgia, settled for an apprentice apostleship - a "God in the Sonship Degree" - with Father Jehovia, a former Pittsburgh steelworker who had a cult in Baltimore...
...press conference, Harry Truman was obviously thinking of an apostleship-of-peace plank in the Democratic Party's 1952 platform. "We would probably go back to the dark ages if we have a third world war," he said in mortuary tones. The U.S. itself would become a battlefront, he warned. His remarks (which he allowed to be quoted directly) were the latest in a string of melancholy lectures to the U.S. public on the horrors...
...finding the metaphor chosen by Cardinal Verdier felicitous. With joy the French primate received a letter entirely in the handwriting of Pius XII. "We desire ardently," wrote the Pope, "that Catholic France, overcoming the difficulties of the present hour, achieve in ever greater degree her noble vocation of apostleship and civilization, which Divine Providence has assigned to her in the concert of nations...
Every month the Pope advises the 36,000,000 (6,000,000 in the U. S.) Roman Catholics who belong to the Apostleship of Prayer what they should pray for. The prayer for July: "Protection against dangerous broadcasting." Rev. James M. Gillis, editor of The Catholic World, explained last week: "We must send out over the air polite, mannerly explanations of Catholic doctrine, hoping thus to offset the attacks of the enemy. . . . The anti-Christians, who rushed pell-mell into radio and made it a devil's instrument will presently get tired of it, after wearing down the endurance...
...steady glow, has been a beacon light to many who seek their way amid the tossing waters that surround as, Loving beauty in literature and in art, and seeing the need of it for the delight of life and the refinement of character, he has never allowed his apostleship of beauty to divert him from the pursuit of goodness and truth. His own literary work, pure and simple in style, elevated in feeling, exact and just in thought, has inspired and stimulated not only his own pupils in the great University he has so long adorned, but those also...