Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This feeling of the mastery of the author is almost an invariable delight to the reader of one of Mrs. Wharton's books or short stories. The present volume is in the main no exception, but there is in the present volume an exception. "The Seed of the Faith," story of two missionaries in Africa, lacks that feeling of completeness, of an author writing from inside out, from the depths of the living which he has done inside the mind of the character. In one of the other stories the cold leaves us shivering, but here there is no equal...
...story of primitive disagreements. The Moros of the south?tall, fearless, ignorant, stanch in their faith that there is but one God, Allah, and that Mohammed is his prophet?despise the little "paternoster-saying natives [of the northern islands] who genuflect to this saint's fingernail and that saint's shinbone." As it happens, although the Moros generally get along amicably with General Wood and the whites, they are forever getting into trouble with the constabulary and lesser officials, who are nearly all Christian natives. The big Moslems and the little Christians are always stepping each on the other...
...Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, infant daughter of the Duke of York, only granddaughter of George V, Rex et Imperator. Above her royal head the Archbishop intoned the significance of the moist cross which he had just made "in token that hereafter she shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified...
...some time to come. The French Resident General in Morocco, M. Jules Steeg, therefore received with the greatest suspicion last week a message from Krim suing for immediate peace. Not until some 300 French and Spanish prisoners had been freed by the Riffi as an earnest of good faith, did the French seriously prepare to receive the surrender of Krim in person. Then a rumor spread that a majority of his adherents, frightened by the Franco-Spanish advance, had shown signs of turning upon their leader; had driven him to anticipate their change of heart by throwing himself upon...
Fundamentalism. A most elementary and powerful tenet of the Baptist faith insists that, to be received into the fold, an applicant must be completely immersed in holy water. Yet certain churches?most particularly the Park Avenue Baptist Church of Manhattan, pastored by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, attended and largely financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr.?have formed a practice of admitting members from other denominations without immersion, accepting a profession of faith as an equivalent of the ordered cleansing. "Let us read these churches out of the faith," fundamentalists have insisted through their leaders, Dr. John Roach Straton...