Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johannesburg's sprawling slums a native Bible teacher recently quizzed his pupils on St. Stephen. "Who was Christianity's first martyr?" he asked. "Who spoke out against the authorities and defiantly affirmed his faith in God and Christ?" The answer came: "Fod Huddson! Fod Huddson...
...then 20, were sitting in Hollywood's Fountain Avenue Baptist Church. "Mother, how is your soul?" the boy suddenly whispered. Recalls Dale: "I said it was all right, but I knew it wasn't. I knew I was groping." "Why don't you give yourself to Christ?" said Tom. Dale went home and decided to do just that...
...postwar productions of his operas, Christophe Colomb (music by Darius Milhaud) and Joan at the Stake (music by Arthur Honegger). Claudel insisted, in his 27-year correspondence with his friend, Novelist André Gide (The Correspondence Between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide) that art must bear witness to Christ, assailed modern literary introspectionists as "horrible little terriers who put their paws on one and make one feel the convulsive shivering which animates their wretched bodies...
...heart and preached the verity of all dogma and actions of the Church of Rome, or, once stating his opposition, to have stuck to his points. As the case of the unfrocked priest, I feel very sorry for him as he has been unable to find true comfort in Christ...
...doubt, Mrs. Knight must belong to the school that believes our ancestors were apes (if Christ is a legend, what else can you believe?), that our world came into being from revolving gaseous matter. Now if she could explain who put the swirling gas into existence, I might discover a grain of truth in her fantastic statements...