Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over 13 years of age). Biggest Protestant groups: Baptists of all kinds (10,322,005); Methodists (9,109,359). Statistician Weber estimated that 20,000,000 people attend church on the Sabbath. Of his figures he said: "They are impressive indices of the presence in the American commonwealth of faith and hope and love...
Last week, His Eminence, born a Sudeten Austrian, preached a plain-spoken anti-Nazi sermon at a youth service at St. Stephen's, exhorted 10,000 worshipers to "give outward testimony" of their faith. The "outward testimony" soon took the form of Catholic demonstrations before Nazi sympathizers. The next evening Nazi groups struck back. Storming the archiepiscopal palace adjoining the Cathedral, they hurled stones through the windows, pushed past a gateman, entered the palace itself and indulged in a little looting. Cardinal Innitzer, praying in his private chapel throughout the tumult, was reported to have been slightly injured...
...holding that Scripture is "one organic whole without contradiction and error." United Lutherans go no farther than to concede that the Bible is "a complete, perfect, unbreakable whole of which Christ is the centre." This week the Baltimore conference votes on (and is expected to accept) a statement of faith, prepared by Lutheran theologians, which will place their church on record as more liberal than most other Lutheran bodies. Chief point: "We [do not] place all parts of Scripture on one plane. They have their more important and their less important parts, and the measure of their importance must always...
...about Gabrilowitsch the musician. An ardent Christian Scientist (although her father was noted for his early attacks on Christian Science), Clara Gabrilowitsch interprets the events of her husband's life piously, describes how she several times brought him through crises of body and mind by the power of faith...
...help from CBS, Messieurs Friedland and van Ackere finished their series. Their recordings, packed with fascinating fictions as well as facts, pictured the U. S. just about as their compatriots at home picture it. The editors explained that too many variations from preconceptions would merely make their compatriots lose faith in the programs. In accordance with the French idea of the U. S., everything moves at a dizzy pace. Efficiency, machinery, wealth are stressed...