Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East [Russia] and from the West [Spain] against Germany, the heart of Europe, and thereby to take it into their fatal pincers . . . German solidarity must not be impaired by religious worry . . . Communism will not be struck in its deepest roots by military force but through the resurrection-in Jesus Christ-of Europe in general and our Fatherland in particular. . . . During the last few months within Germany's own border the Catholic Church, Pope, Bishops and Priests have been brought in slanderous connection with Bolshevism, and books, periodicals and newspapers have spoken of the brotherhood between Rome and Moscow. Spain...
Farm-born Dwight Lyman Moody was a shoe clerk in Boston when, at 19, he was brought to Christ by his Congregational Sunday School teacher. Year later he was a $5,000-a-year shoe salesman in Chicago. There he began an extraordinary program of prayer-meetings, social work, personal evangelism, recreation, philanthropy. Short, stout, full-bearded, he became known to the Chicago Press as "Crazy Moody." He liked to stop pedestrians, inquire "Are you a Christian?" Declining for conscience's sake to fight in the Civil War, he nevertheless followed the Union armies saving souls. Critics said...
...Moody & Sankey made prodigious onslaughts upon the unregenerate, organized services in big cities with as many as 500 ushers, 1,000 choirsingers. In Philadelphia, they attracted 900,000 people in nine weeks. Said Moody: "It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ, and it is a pleasure the angels can't enjoy." But toward the end of his career this evangelist, who was no great speaker, no great theologian, discovered that most of the people who went to hear him were already church members. On Manhattan's East Side he experimented with an enfeebled...
When Jesus Christ went into the wilderness to spend 40 days in solitude, he set an example for all Christians who wish to make their peace with God, put their lives in order. That example, however, has been systematically and generally followed only among Roman Catholics. In the 16th Century St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, laid down detailed rules for "retreats" in his Spiritual Exercises, and St. Charles (Cardinal) Borromeo established retreat houses in his archdiocese of Milan. Since the 17th Century annual retreats have been customary and obligatory for all Catholic priests. Since 1882, when...
...insight it provides than in a number of brilliant scenes scattered throughout the book, giving eloquent testimony of Author Bates's graphic powers. One of these is a description of a Holy Week procession that is broken up by atheists who smash the images, burn the figures of Christ. "In the middle of the road, Mudarra, his pale face burning with intense purpose, was swinging a bar of iron at the feet of Judas Iscariot. ... In the Square of Our Lady of Carmen the fire smouldered, a wooden head, charred beyond recognition and glowing red at the neck...