Word: faith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fold nature. He is both a material and a spiritual being and both natures have been equally affected by the Fall. His body is exposed to disease, his soul corrupted by sin. How blessed, therefore, to find that the complete scheme of redemption includes both natures. . .' . Effectual faith can come only through conviction. If you will believe tonight you shall see mighty works in His name for His word says, 'Call upon me and I will show thee great and mighty things that thou knowest not.' ... Let us pray...
...think," boomed Vance Muse, "that I should stand in the presence of the Senate of the United States, in which I have implicit faith...
...essence of Riskin-Capra magic to defy analysis on paper because it fits so perfectly its proper medium, the screen. In Mr. Deeds Goes to Town it is applied most spectacularly to a courtroom scene in which Longfellow simultaneously proves his sanity and regains the faith in the girl he loves (Jean Arthur) which he had lost on learning that she was the reporter who made him the city's laughing stock. The scene is consequently the funniest as well as one of the most spiritually nourishing cinema climaxes of the current season...
Last week in the current issue of his monthly business review, Analyst Ayres undertook to destroy the common faith in common stocks as a hedge against inflation. With the aid of a chart showing the course of stock prices in terms of the cost of living, he reviewed the record in France, Germany and the U. S. during the War and post-War inflation. If stock prices had risen as fast as the cost of living, Mr. Ayres's bold, black zigzags would have fluctuated close to the basic chart line 100. The U. S. index, however, dropped...
Garland's conclusion: the phenomena are inexplicable but their interpretation is too hopeful. Spiritualism naturally draws people who have been bereaved, but their faith is "a fairy story with a heartache in it." Garland thinks mediums are often sincere but are probably subconscious frauds. His guess at the queer things he heard, saw, felt: "They all originate in the seance room and have not been proven to go beyond...