Word: christendom
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...declaration of faith of Christendom's most famed living convert was made public last week by the Methodist Church. Chiang Kai-shek had written it in 1937, shortly after his capture and release by his Sian kidnappers...
According to his opinion, there is less inclination to use the church as a political and military weapon, and more of a tacit willingness to let it cultivate "those concerns which Christendom has tended to concede it as its distinctive bailiwick. Such a task would seem to be its most effective contribution to national morale." However, Dean Sperry warned of the danger of divorcing religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, thereby leaving the ordering of civilization to secular forces...
...shameful results of that policy ? There are always appeasers, the servants and the fools of perished fallacies. Let TIME not stamp the Jewish people of today with the cowardice and treachery born of fear of a few impotent and feeble men. The act of expiation and redemption which Christendom owes Israel is Palestine, the whole of Palestine, and an army to defend it and a place at the peace table as a government-in-exile...
...Maltese Knights held her against the Turks. She became the bulwark of Christendom against the Infidel, grew to be an even stouter bulwark when Grand Master Jean de la Valette Parisot built the fortress city which was named after him and which stands today on the north shore like an amber rock pile in the Mediterranean's sapphire...
...main square opposite an old palace of the Grand Masters of the Knights of St. John. Over the plinth the King's Own Malta Regiment took up solemn sentry duty. Stoically the Maltese burrowed into their ancient island. Grimly, for the power and the glory and for Christendom, the island of the Knights fought...