Word: faithful
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Meanwhile last week Mormonism, which unlike Episcopalianism is always an unobtrusively but persistently missionizing faith (see col. 1), set up camp for the first time in a long-neglected corner of the vineyard, New England. In Boston last week arrived Dr. Carl Ferdinand Eyring, onetime physics professor at Brigham Young University, to be first president of the New England Mormon Mission. He found that some 3,000 New Englanders were already Latter-day Saints. President Eyring set up headquarters in a house in Cambridge, hired the old, staid Cantabrigia Club (women) for Sunday meetings. With him he brought 20 young...
While the President was thus expressing his faith in the Constitution its sesquicentennial was also observed by the University of Michigan Press by the publication of a hitherto unprinted autobiographical sketch and a letter by the figure in U. S. history who was one of the Constitution's most vigorous interpreters: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U. S. from 1801 to 1835. Written in 1827 to furnish data about his life to Associate Justice Joseph Story, who was reviewing Marshall's History of the Colonies for the North American Review, the autobiographical sketch discovered five years...
Finally Jesuit LeBuffe paid his respects to novenas-the Catholic act of faith which the devout spend nine days performing, usually saying numerous prayers in honor of a saint or a feast day. Said he: "Now I carry a medal of the Little Flower with me and pray to her daily, but I am not sure I'd die for a novena to the Little Flower. There is too much Novena-itis, too many spiritual lollypops in presentday religion. I favor novenas, of course, but I do not believe that God is ultimately going to save us by numbers...
...Sunpapers of Baltimore. Though Author Johnson says he is dull of ear and asbestos of soul so far as "the fire of genius that burned in the young Mozart'' is concerned, he is an earnest flautist, plays twice a month in a Baltimore amateur ensemble called "The Faith, Hope & Charity Chamber Music Club...
...indisputable evidence of Black's Klan affiliation, means, according to the publisher, that millions of hard-won Negro votes are permanently lost to the Democratic party, provided no way is found to force the Alabaman off the high tribunal. Further many large-city groups in the North will lose faith in the New Deal, he said, and such a revulsion of feeling, will, if the Republican party is strong enough, be reflected in the 1938 Congressional elections. "The Roosevelt strategy," he said, "at the present time, is to do absolutely nothing about the matter, and concentrate on spectacular subjects like...