Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather understand it as an admission of national imperfection and incompleteness. It is a declaration of internationalism because we know that God loves all men impartially; a confession of sin because we know that only Christ is without sin; a cry of weakness because we know that our nation is not spiritually strong enough to die redemptively; and, withal, a declaration of trust and hope because we believe that (since Christ did die redemptively) God has a mission for us that is within our power to fulfill...
...interpreter, but I've been in enough of these meetings to know that He's here tonight." "Some 700 of the 28,000 Germans followed ushers into the tent for the converted. Outside, a guard advised the curious: "Entry only for those who have turned to Jesus Christ tonight." Soon after the meeting, Graham doubled up in pain; German physicians diagnosed the trouble as a "blocked kidney." But next day, Graham hopped off to Berlin for another big revival sermon to 70,000 in the vast Olympic Stadium. Then Graham fell ill again, not seriously...
...Guareschi's hands the theory bears up entertainingly well. Communists hate to be spoofed. Guareschi, in his halfway perch between angry polemic and soft chuckle, makes fun of them. Peppone, for example, advises Comrade Lungo not to be alarmed because so many of the villagers believe in Jesus Christ...
After Peppone has gone, Don Camillo stares morosely into the fire. Christ on the Crucifix, to whom the priest often turns for advice or argument, berates him: "Don Camillo . . . you .[are] in the service of the King of Heaven, not of the kings of clubs and diamonds. You ought to be ashamed." "Lord, I know I'm in the wrong," confesses Don Camillo. His eye turns to the fireplace, where the last of Peppone's marked deck is beginning to burn. The priest sighs-but he sighs not so much for his wrongdoing as for the realization that...
History. In Christ's time, Mayan Indians, history's most brilliant aborigines, created in Guatemala a culture that included sculpture, arithmetic, writing and trade (in textiles and featherwork) over a net of fine roads-though they had neither domestic animals nor the wheel. But earthquakes, plagues and tribal wars so weakened them that in 1523-26 Spanish Captain Pedro de Alvarado's 120 horsemen and 500 foot soldiers were able to subjugate 2,000,000 Indians. Spain made Guatemala the viceregal capital of Central America, and enslaved the Indians as plantation labor; an Indian caught riding...