Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...praises the Catholic Church for having not only a living God but also a live devil, who, he thinks, might be just the type of agent to scare him into salvation...
...Devil & Mr. High...
Strapping (6 ft., 4½ in.) Presbyterian Evans needed only a few days to find out where to start. Then he looked. up the leader of the town's young hooligans. The boy told him, "Yes, we're going to the devil all right. There's no place else to go." Evans promptly commandeered a hotel, rallied the town's boys with saws and hammers to convert it into "Evans' Gym." By the time he left, three years later, order was restored and his congregation had swelled from...
...ground the Catholic Church stands on is-for Catholics-high and lifted up. It preaches the love of God, but it also preaches the fear of the Devil. . . . The Catholic doctrine of Heaven has meaning because there is meaning and reality in the Catholic doctrine of Hell. . . . As Protestants I wish we'd stop worrying and clamoring against the secular competition with Roman Catholicism and begin to worry a little bit about the spiritual competition...
...acknowledge that need. But the church we need will have more of Dante and Dostoevsky in its message and less of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Eddie Guest; more of the Last Judgment and less of the Golden Rule. It will not only have a Living God, but a Live Devil. Its Heaven will have a Hell for its alternative. Its objective-so far as I'm concerned-will not be my cultivation, but my rebirth. I might fail that kind of church. But that kind of church could not fail...