Word: exalts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...challenge from his Roman masters. . . . Opening a simple and impressionable mind to the Gospels, he has divined the true nature of Jesus' mission. He has understood that this was a prophet who came into the world not to confirm the mighty in their seat but to exalt the meek and the humble. . . . The Syrian slave-immigrants who once brought Christianity into Roman Italy performed the miracle of establishing a new religion which was alive in the place of an old religion which was already dead. It is possible that the Negro slave-immigrants who have found Christianity in America...
...nation, if, instead of giving honor to God, we exalt human ideas above God and extol the powers of this world as though they were all-powerful...
...Brogan's The English People: "Brogan does wholeheartedly believe there is one thing that both England and America have in common. That is a sincere belief that 'righteousness' does in fact exalt a nation. And he seems to thank the Lord that both the Americans and British have come to realize that without each other the victory that we all deem is impending would not be possible...
...Kicked Upstairs" is not a hit, nor will it be when and if the first act is improved so that the actors take over the play more smoothly and speedily. The attempt to exalt Pusey to the sacrificial pedestal, and perhaps to develop a theme of "blood will tell" is unsuccessful and out of place. But if the management could close off the first and second balconies, "Kicked Upstairs" might furnish an orchestral full house with an inane and entertaining evening...
Holy Fifth Column. Richelieu's foreign policy had two interlocking parts: 1) to unify France under an absolute monarchy; 2) to break the power of the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs and exalt the Bourbons. Up & down the rutted roads and cow paths of Europe padded barefoot Father Joseph. He visited kings, the Pope, rebellious nobles, foreign agents. The Pope made him Apostolic Commissary of Missions...