Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little man, he stood behind the microphone while the delegates cheered. Said he: "I stand at attention before the legion of sorrow." He continued: "They say we are sentimentalists, that we long for a past which died with one man. But we are like the apostles who gained their faith through the martyrdom of Christ...
...hope seemed perilously near to despair, but it was hope enough for Sir Walter. Last week, while still heading the government's University Grants Committee, he was busy preparing for his new job as first principal of St. Catherine's, a new college "based on the Christian faith and philosophy of life." Sir Walter's hope was considerably fortified by the faith of others, notably of King George VI, who gave furniture from Windsor Castle for St. Catherine's, and last week offered its principal the use of Windsor's Henry III Tower...
American MPs, one on each side, and I'll have faith in the Russians...
...Slums. This week, in the second installment, Professor Barrois gets down to specifics on the differences between the churches. "We had better recognize the fact that we are divided on matters of faith and life, which we cannot disregard," he says. In the first place, "the Roman
...priest when he was 25. In 1941, after 18 years as a priest, and some long, painful self-questioning about problems of dogma, he became a Protestant, later married. Now teaching theology and biblical archeology at Princeton Theological Seminary, Presbyterian Barrois has written occasionally about his change of faith, but usually in a key apparently set to avoid controversy with Catholics...