Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word of God. Planted in the years of peace, it had taken root, brought forth good fruit. War did not lay the ground waste. Said Army Chaplain Garland Evans Hopkins, in last week's Christian Century: "Perhaps no such witness to the durability of the Christian faith has been borne in our time as by the Okinawan Christians." His testimony...
...wind and mountain and sea, Lieut. William K. Bunce, U.S.N.R., wrestled for three months. Then the tall, slight, 38-year-old former dean of Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio), for three years a teacher in Japan, produced a directive reshaping the relationship of 77,000,000 Japanese to the Shinto faith. Last week, with not even a penciled change by Allied headquarters, Shinto according to Bunce was promulgated in Tokyo...
...between genuinely religious doctrine and social propaganda. Advocates of the Bunce directive pointed out that modern Shintoism has shallow roots, and that many-perhaps most-Japanese would welcome its modification. There remained, however, the danger that at some future date revived Japanese nationalism would rally round the "persecuted" Shinto faith...
...religious holiday, Christmas 1945 had, at least in the secret mind of those who shared the Christian vision, a new solemnity. Well might they read with a new anguish of hope, a new resoluteness of faith, a new temper of charity, the age-old words-perhaps the most perfect ever uttered...
...terms which present-day Protestantism had all but forgotten, the Pope re-echoed the Council's appeal to non-Catholic Christians. He appealed for the return to the Catholic faith of all who believed "in the principal divinely revealed truths." When Christians outside the Church of Rome observed, he said, that the Church "remains firm in the faith, powerful in its works, enriching all men without distinction of race, creed or color, then they, it may be hoped, will . . . sense a desire, implanted deeply in the heart of every man, for that necessary union with Peter and his successors...