Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saxony, in Germany's Russian zone, the Communist government banned all Christmas carols that mentioned angels or the Christ Child. At a fair in Berlin's Soviet sector, swings, merry-go-rounds and roller coasters whirled in a raucous counterfeit of yuletide gaiety, but there was little or nothing for shoppers to buy. At grey-market shops, a pound of chocolates cost a laborer's full week's wage. Berliners stared at the meager, overpriced goods in frustrated despair; women wept. "Dear God," muttered one Hausfrau who had been searching in vain for some coffee cups...
...sound of the bells was a more than abstract symbol of the army's obedience to Christ's command. Only a few avowed Christians have tried to follow one of Christ's injunctions so literally. On the Mount of Olives, the Savior had preached: "I was a stranger, and ye took me in ... naked, and ye clothed me ... In prison, and ye came unto me . . . Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto...
...Salvation Army is a religion without elaborate liturgy or complicated creed. Its theology is the simplest practice of Christianity. It proceeds on the down-to-earth theory that Christ gave clear instructions on what to do about the degraded, the abandoned and the poor. And so it has fought-with its heart to God and its hand...
...deeply religious but not a puritanical family, in which father Pugmire was second in command. In whatever dining room the family happened to be using along its gospel travels, father Pugmire always hung the motto: "Christ is the head of this house, the unseen guest at every meal, the silent listener to every conversation." Family prayers were said every morning and every night. Serious-minded Ernest read to improve himself, learned to play the euphonium. Occasionally he used his fists capably when the boys in the neighborhood taunted him about his parents being Salvationists...
...astonished the army's embattled first generation. But the workers in General Booth's host, like other dedicated servants of the poor, could make an explanation. The world could not continue to persecute, or even be indifferent, to men & women who live by the most difficult of Christ's beatitudes: "Blessed are the meek . . . blessed are the merciful...