Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bogalusa, La., who had completed his theological training at Bilbo's expense, preached the sermon. He took his text from Second Timothy, fourth chapter, 7th and 8th verses: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith...
...always said that there would be an end and that the end would be pretty rough, to put it mildly. For the New Testament, this world, societies, and indeed life itself, are but a temporary experience. Moreover, the success of the Christian Church and the validity of its faith does not depend and never has depended on its ability to save societies or prevent physical death. The Church did not save Roman Society, but it saved Romans who were in a doomed society; the Church did not save Feudal Society, but it saved men and women who were in Feudal...
...This faith in beneficent, nationalist, respectable, blue-serge-suited Communism has conquered city after city in Italy's northern "Red Belt...
...Ruth does not renew her vows (which are renewable annually in this Order); she pours herself into a red dress and makes a maddened dead-set for the Englishman. The pagan atmosphere is too much for the nuns; by the time the rains set in, they forlornly abandon St. Faith's for the convent back in Calcutta...
...from this cozy society, with its unquestioning faith in business and its unconscious exclusion of other classes, other arts and ways of life, Canby admits that the young men of his time took flight in coveys to the relative freedom of college life. In college, however, they found a juvenile competitive society exactly suited to put them back where they came from. Says he: "I can still shiver with humiliation over slights remembered for thirty-odd years, and warm at the memory of unforgettable mirth," or of his more rakish classmates with "their tiny straw hats with negligible brims...