Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tortured Souls. "Christian love can bring brotherhood on earth. There is an element of God in every man," said he, after his own home was bombed. "No matter how low one sinks into racial bigotry, he can be redeemed . . . Nonviolence is our testing point. The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back." With such an approach he outflanked the Southern legislators who planted statutory hedgerows against integration for as far as the eye could see. He struck where an attack was least expected, and where it hurt most: at the South...
...Onward, Christian Soldiers. The meeting is scheduled for 7 o'clock, but by 3 there are already 20 women waiting in the church auditorium (the meetings are moved each week from church to church to give each a sense of participation in the movement), and by 6 the hall is filled. As the starting time approaches, 40 Negro ministers file into their places near the altar. Finally, the electric clock on the balcony reaches 7 o'clock. King and his top assistants enter; the crowd rises and applauds wildly...
...also referred to a newspaper article by Christian A. Herter, Jr. '41, which said that it would take four years for legislation enacting a graduated income tax to be passed. He said that while he favored enactment of such measures "at the earliest possible moment," in the meanwhile, present tax laws could be applied to supply the needed income...
...wrestling with spiritual forces that can only be overcome by the power of God in answer to the prayers of God's people." Graham cites groups in Hong Kong, India and London who are praying for the New York crusade every day. Then he tells readers of Christian Life how they can help...
...fascinating and informative on two counts. It gives a salutary refresher course in the feeding and breeding habits of the pestiferous swarm of Soviet agents at work outside Russia. And it gives a self-portrait of the "new" Soviet citizen to whom freedom is a myth and all the Christian charities of Western life are not even a memory. Moreover, unlike the stories of Kravchenko in the U.S., Gouzenko in Canada or Krivitsky in Europe, the Petrovs' Australian adventure has an unconscious touch of high comedy, together with its low politics...