Word: backslidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army and Big Business have tried to get the Führer to move Christmas this year to Sunday, Dec. 24, so that munitions production would hum as usual on Monday, the 25th. Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool. He declined to take this advice. Aides said he might celebrate Christmas on the 25th at the Westwall with the troops. Last week rustic Nazi pagan neighbors of the Fuhrer at Berchtesgaden announced that on Christmas Eve they will gather on the mountain crags above his snuggery "to shoot guns and pistols to frighten away...
...hand and the forces of liquor and lawlessness on the other." Dr. Leonard Gaston Broughton (a doctor of medicine as well as of divinity), also of Atlanta, had urged them: to support that "oldtime Baptist spiritual Evangelism to preach the doctrine of sin and salvation, and quicken the backslidden churches and reach the unsaved. . . . Those intellectual, or handpicked, or gumshoe Evangelisms in which some are trying to reflect upon our mass or church revivals, we will oppose...
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