Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Protestants and Catholics, Unitarians call themselves Christians because they believe in the divinity (but hot deity) and the teachings of a human Jesus Christ. Unitarianism made its appearance in the Christian world in the 16th Century, grew in the U. S. in the 18th Century, became a loosely organized faith in 1825. U. S. Unitarians are proud that Ellsworth Huntington, in The Character of Races, proved that in proportion to their small numbers (at present, 61,000) Unitarians had produced more U. S. leaders than any other sect...
...voted down the suggestion that PWA be prohibited from further building of power plants in competition with private industry, Senator Alben Barkley specifically promised that the "President does not contemplate" any further such competition "unless and until such municipality as may apply for such allocation has in good faith made an offer to purchase the existing private plant...
Eucharistic Congresses, the mightiest demonstrations of public faith the Christian world affords, demonstrate also the Catholic Church's talent for organized magnificence. Committees in charge take in their stride arrangements for such ceremonies as Budapest's Mass last week for 100,000 children, with presents of candy afterward for every one. Yet the Budapest Congress was not the largest of recent years. Nazi truculence, in the form of special visa restrictions, kept Germans at home, held the number of foreign pilgrims to about 25,000, of whom 1,000 were U. S. Catholics...
...union not only of Presbyterianism but of all evangelical bodies in this country. It should take place at once." A candidate for union which is both evangelical and Catholic is the Episcopal Church. Last autumn the Episcopal General Convention invited Presbyterians to join in accepting a broad statement of faith in Jesus Christ, the Bible, the sacraments of baptism and Communion (see p. 54). Last week the Presbyterian Assembly, almost unanimously, voted acceptance. Commissions of both churches have already begun exploring tactics...
...every man, woman, and child in Harvard will give money. Now they are the humanitarians. Now Harvard shall in faith have sent an ambulance to Spain when it shall have sent one to each side...