Word: devoutedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young, Healthy & Devout. The institute's purpose is to train missionaries, but not missionaries to the outposts of civilization. Most of its graduates go back to their homes to reclaim backslid Christians and to evangelize those whom Naziism or Communism have deprived of the barest knowledge of Christianity...
Candidates for the institute must be young, healthy and devout, with some musical ability (to back up hymn-singing). Those who are unable to pay the $400 all-inclusive fee for a two-year course are taken free of charge, with pocket money included. So far, only two of the institute's 60 alumni have strayed from the evangelistic fold...
...could worship together amicably in one church. Last week the wager looked as secure as Mr. Barrow's trim white clapboard Holy Trinity Church in Marathon. Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, members of the United Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Salvation Army were joined into one devout congregation, celebrating together the payment of the first $15,000 installment on the church mortgage...
...Devout Sex. Far from being an "enthusiast" himself, Msgr. Knox is sometimes unable to suppress a faint shudder at the uncouth excesses with which his subject compels him to deal. But for the most part he treats his material with the warm antiquarian relish of a jurist whose hobby is delving into the idiosyncrasies of safecrackers...
...growing importance of women. From the Montanist movement on, "the history of enthusiasm is largely a history of female emancipation, and it is not a reassuring one . . . The sturdiest champion of women's rights will hardly deny that the unfettered exercise of the prophetic ministry by the more devout sex can threaten the ordinary decencies of ecclesiastical order...