Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fundamentalist" has taken place. The leading voices in the Presbyterian general assembly, upholding the existing order, strove to avoid the threatened cleavage in the church, and did not openly denounce the new tendencies. It saw that a tactful request to Dr. Fosdick to accept the Presbyterian articles of faith, or resign his church, would convey a tacit denunciation of those tendencies he represented. That Dr. Fosdick has answered their ultimatum with resignation is not surprising...
Before Harvard audiences he has emphasized his super-creedal ideal. He has believed that a new era is at hand, in which traditional religion is breaking through its hard chrysalis of dogma and coming forth a changing, living faith in harmony with a changing, living world. For him, dogmas can not contain it. Creeds may fit it for the moment, but for a moment only. The aspirations of the new man rise higher; knowledge increases; thought advanced through an ever broadening vista: with the result that dogma and creed have ceased to express adequately for the new generation what they...
...Lord has guided us and shaped the events in which we rejoice. He has held us under His protection. The fact that we have this Divine guidance and protection should, and must, increase our faith in the Klan, in its growth in grace and power, in its mission, in its final, complete victory...
...feels that to shirk the responsibilities of his wealth would be cowardly. He wants to deal justly and humanely with the men in his coal mines, with the public, with Rhoda, with his firm, most of whose members are related to him. Rhoda refuses to believe in his good faith or in the limitations of his power for good...
...committee composed of eight physicians, eleven ministers, three university professors, one lawyer was appointed by the General Ministerial Association of Vancouver to inquire into the authenticity of alleged cures supposed to have resulted from faith. Three hundred fifty persons supposedly cured were investigated. Of this number, five seemed to be so distinctly benefited that at the end of six months they were still regarded as cured. Thirty-eight patients claimed improvement, and 212 could see no change in their condition, although at the time of the "anointing" they had been declared cured. Seventeen were distinctly worse; 39 had died; five...