Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protestants seldom talk about "heresy" and are traditionally tolerant in matters of faith. Last week it appeared that the Congregationalists, for one, were going about as tolerant as they could...
...British Quakers founded the London Service Council to promote faith and international good will in Europe, India and China. In 1917, U.S. Quakers, unsatisfied with a purely negative form of pacifism, organized the American Friends' Service Committee to give any kind of help wherever it was needed, without consideration of politics, nationality or creed. Since 1929, the Committee has been administered by able, affable Clarence E. Pickett...
...Only eight of the 50 held the Bible authoritative in matters of faith, rather than merely a guide. Thirty-five counted the church as indispensable; 13 rated it "helpful...
This "theological confusion," concluded the committee soberly, is a serious handicap to Congregational evangelism. What, it asked, are preaching missions to preach, and in what faith are young people to be confirmed...
Characteristically, Brooks is far more successful in bringing to life Whitman's optimistic, spacious, fervent democratic faith than Melville's tortured, Jacob-like wrestling with his own soul. He casts a wishful haze over mid-19th Century American life...