Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Karens have always been a separate people; their conversion to Christianity intensified their division from the Buddhist Burmans. The first Karen convert was Ko Tha Byu, a Karen bandit bought out of slavery by Dr. Adoniram Judson, a Baptist missionary from Maiden, Mass, who had arrived in Burma in 1813. Ko Tha Byu learned to read the Scriptures, was baptized, and set out to convert his fellow tribesmen. Karens, who had a myth that one day their "lost white brother" would return over the great waters with a "lost book," made willing listeners. When bands of Karens began to arrive...
...church, "before God and men, is to teach it ... as Christ revealed it . . . Desire for heaven is a more perfect motive than fear of eternal punishment, but from this it does not follow that it is the most effective motive to hold . . . [people] far from sin and convert them...
...financed by Tom Slick, millionaire oilman, cattleman and inventor (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946), through his Foundation for Applied Science at the Essar (short for Scientific Research) Ranch. When the project was formally unveiled there last week, Foundation Director Dr. Harold Vagtborg optimistically gloated that it might be possible "to convert all cattle herds into registered stock of the finest quality in a single generation...
...such incidents and characters The God-Seeker is compounded. Aaron comes to know and fear tough Caesar Lanark, falls half in love with Huldah Purdick (while Selene is away), argues with a suave Catholic missionary, becomes friendly with Black Wolf, an Oberlin-educated Indian who is trying to convert the whites to the beliefs of the Indians. Finally he flees with Selene from the wrath of her father, becomes a prosperous builder in St. Paul (after marrying Selene), encourages his workmen to go out on strike, and on the eve of the Civil War is somewhat surprised to find himself...
Between stays in Russia, she traveled from revolution to revolution; her favorite was China, where she denounced Chiang Kai-shek as a bandit, and extolled the Chinese Communist leaders as Marxist saints. During lecture tours in the U.S. she tried to convert everyone in sight to Communism, including Henry Ford. She noted with asperity that the only American organizations which refused to listen to her were the National City Bank of New York and the House of Morgan...