Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faith of the few men who started this movement," concludes Author Taft, "has been amply justified. The giant may loom large; he may seem overwhelming. The inertia of people is even more discouraging. And yet this group of Davids, for all their weakness, were able to overcome Goliath of the Machine. . . . They proved that good government in American cities of substantial size is a possibility...
...there were conditions: ?10,000 had to be given to the Pope and ?50,000 more divided among worthy individuals. The Second Presbyterian church of Spartanburg, S. C. seemed a very worthy beneficiary. The Rev. Mr. Henderson put up ?70 of his own money as evidence of good faith. So did another very solid-looking stranger by the name of John Clarke. O'Rourke, Mr. Clarke and the ?70 all disappeared together. To his burning embarrassment the Rev. Mr. Henderson learned that he had been the victim of one of the most shopworn swindles in the world, known...
...Faith in God may be a thoroughly scientific attitude, even though we may be unable to establish the correctness of our belief. Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are as his children. Not that science in any way shows such a relationship . . . but the evidence for an intelligent power working in the world which science offers does make such a postulate plausible...
Just now the most vital question ahead of us is whether the government of the United States is going to keep on borrowing indefinitely or is to place a limit on its own borrowings. If there is no limit, then faith in paper money will break down and regardless of what anybody in the government here says he wants to do, the printing presses will have to be turned on as the only...
...Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai- Wang-Chu-Chueh-Le-Lang-Chieh, otherwise known as Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. From Buddhists who traveled up from India in the 7th Century, over torrential rivers and through snow-swept passes of the Himalayas, the Tibetans adopted their faith-Lamaism. A powerful hierarchy grew up, with lamas (monks), priests, metropolitans, abbots, hutukhtus (saints). With a graded priesthood and a liturgy which included vestments, chants and prayers, Lamaism came to resemble a caricatured Catholicism, remembered perhaps from the teachings of wandering heretic Nestorians. In the 15th Century, through a shift...