Word: faith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general crusading ardor of the "war to end war" there were few who believed war as such wholly wrong. There were fewer still who had enough faith in principle to refuse to fight in the face of the bitter and contemptuous accusations of disloyalty and cowardice heaped upon them by the public and friends alike. If war comes again, there will be a greater number of resisters than in 1917. But what influence will they have? How many will stand firm in the face of the obloquy they are almost certain to have to endure? The answer depends upon...
Harold Nicolson, who grieved deeply over the transition from old to new diplomacy, is doubtless experiencing a revival of faith as a result of the Anglo-French conversations now being held in London. For there is little difference between the methods being employed to bring France and England closer together, and the frequent visits paid by M. Jules Cambon to the British Foreign Office in the years immediately preceding the World War. To be sure, present-day publicity precludes the possibility of the once popular secret alliances, but this factor is merely a sign of the times. Even President Wilson...
...individual human sou!. It is not a mere system of philanthropy. It is not a cure for social misery that can be applied from the outside; but ... it brings to each man and woman the message of redemption, and offers them a new nature and new life through faith in Jesus Christ...
...Stocking also expounded Hell, against which he said the Congregational & Christian Churches are making an organized attack. "To save men from Hell," said the Moderator, "must ever be the motive of missions. We must have a sense of Hell, not the Hell of a onetime theological faith but the Hell that is a present observable fact. We do not need to preach Hell for there is plenty of it in the world to be seen...
...educational creed: "Much of our secondary and college education has become efficient without being sufficient. The refreshingly new techniques of our day are never complete for the challenging world's life unless informed and kindled by the goals, the discipline and the resources of a vital Christian faith...