Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believed the early Christian martyrs were right not to lie to save their skins...
...came near being a less easily pronounceable set of initials-the Y. M. R. A. (Young Men's Religious Association). Williams, a plugger who became a partner in the firm, married his partner's daughter and eventually was knighted by Queen Victoria, finally settled on the name "Christian" instead of "Religious," stipulated that only evangelical Christians could join his association...
...backers, beginning 50 years ago, did far more than those of any other nation to extend its work throughout the world. They also shifted its emphasis. Today, with some 1,900,000 members in 10,000 local associations in 60 lands, the "Y" is no longer exclusively evangelical or Christian; Jews may belong.* Most people now think of the Y. M. C. A. not as a religious organization but as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with gymnasiums and clean beds...
...property and endowment and its $48,000,000 income, has been accused-because its high command eschews politico-economic controversy-of being socially laggard, of being a closed corporation in which working secretaries tend to become older and older. Nevertheless, if the Y. M. C. A. has diluted its Christian message in nominally Christian nations, it has become a powerful force for Christian leadership elsewhere in the world. Its international organization, built over many years by a great international Christian, Dr. John Raleigh Mott, is now activated by 900-odd native-born "Y" secretaries, whose influence is great in such...
...good, as far as the Communists are concerned. Adventures of a Young Man, first of an intended series of contemporary portraits, traces the evolution, in the '203 and '305, of a middle-class radical. Sandy-haired, grey-eyed, idealistic Glenn Spotswood was brought up to be a Christian Gentleman. But his father was liberal enough to get fired from Columbia University for opposing U. S. entry into the War. Other radicalizers in Glenn's young manhood were a good-humored rebel chum; a freshman roommate hipped on the Law of Moses and Henry George's single...