Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hurling stones and fruit while it chanted "Long live Perón, down with the Pope." As a priest sang a Mass inside, a crowd gathered on the steps of the cathedral while opponents hurled stones and rotten fruit and fired a few shots. The crowd answered, "Long live Christ the King." When the faithful were at last driven from the steps, the mob stoned the win dows of the Episcopal Palace. Perón rushed to his office, ordered all outdoor religious activities suspended...
...loving, nominally Roman Catholic Paris. At his first public meeting, some 9,000 people flocked into the huge Vélodrome d'Hiver (capacity: 20,000) to hear him. Standing beneath a giant Scoreboard, Billy exhorted them, in short, hard-hitting sentences, to "repent, receive Jesus Christ through faith, and surrender and commit everything to Jesus Christ." After each sentence, he waited while U.S.-educated French Baptist Minister Jacques Blocher translated his words into French at the same speed and with the same intonation and gestures...
...defect in the public-address system caused a buzzing that made it difficult to hear parts of Billy's sermon. But when he called for "decisions for Christ," 623 Frenchmen-young and old, shabby and well-dressed-shuffled down the aisle while a mixed choir of 500 sang softly and Billy waited with folded arms...
GEORGE W. CARPENTER Executive Secretary Division of Foreign Missions National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America New York City...
...just persons, which need no repentance." In due course the sinner appears, but the book's hero is on the scene from Page One, a Roman Catholic priest, about to travel the age-old road to martyrdom. Jesuit Father Janos is a good priest and a soldier of Christ in his heart, but he has had to fight few battles for the Christian faith in Roman Catholic Hungary. Then, as he sees Red agitators play on the needs and greeds of the peasantry, Father Janos wonders if his church has lost the early dedication of catacomb Christianity...