Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...families of America headed home after the closing hymn, they looked like the people of many another congregation across the land-people with steady faith in themselves and the world in which God had placed them...
...Leung, longtime general secretary of China's Y.M.C.A., made it clear that Christians could not hope to put off decisions until things blow over. "The present regime has come to stay in China," he warned. "All Christians must . . . meet the challenge for a more vital faith. And we must preach the complete gospel...
...must seek to win to the Christian faith . . . even Communists themselves. We must outthink, out-live-and, if necessary, out-die the Communists...
There are still a few hardy--or foolhardy--old car enthusiasts in the neighborhood these days who are defying the laws of diminishing returns and displaying a strong faith in God, Montgomery Ward, and anti-freeze...
...readers are likely to ask about Eliot's poetry. He shows in detail how Eliot mixes pretentious eloquence and street slang, ancient myths and snatches of borrowed verse to portray an age of "social fright." As Frankenberg traces Eliot's poetic development from weary irony to religious faith, the reader does learn something about the moods and mechanics of modern poetry...