Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calumnies of a few political enemies, nor his private grief at the death of his wife and of his son Joseph, worn out in the service, could deter this stalwart patriot from giving the fullest measure of service to the cause in which he had a high and reverend faith...
Christian Science, Faith Healing, prayer for the sick, modern science of health, New Thought, and the Emmanuel Movement will be among the subjects dealt with by Dr. Cabot in his lecture...
...false prophets, has had little to do with the shifting frontiers, the deciduous dogmas, of modern medicine. Thinking always of the cures performed by a man of Galilee, it has held apart from the contentions of surgeons and physicians, to interest itself rather in the works of those faith healers who work without stethescopes or education, trying to restore the sick by a touch, telling the crippled to take up their beds and walk...
Nevertheless, faith healing has become so much the mode in Britain that last week the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed the Bishop of Southwark to preside over a council of six celebrated doctors and six clergymen to advise the Church "on all matters related to spiritual healing and healing missions." In this step some people thought they perceived a formal recognition of spiritual healing. Medicos, clerics, were asked for their opinions...
Robert Green Ingersoll was born in Dresden, N. Y., in 1833. To awaken faith in God, his father, a Congregational minister, taught him to reason, with the unhappy result that Ingersoll became an agnostic, and all his life continued to champion his faith in no faith. He studied law, was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1857. In the Civil War he raised a regiment of cavalry, used in his recruiting speeches a natural eloquence unsurpassed in his generation. But it was not until his speech in the Republican Convention of 1876 that he came to national fame...