Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When in 1906 Cardinal Goossens died and he was promoted from Monseigneur to Archbishop of Malines, he, audacious in his faith, announced as his episcopal motto: Apostolus Jesu Christi. A year later he got the red hat of Cardinal and the pastorate of Saint-Pierre-és-Liens, ancient church symbolical of religious fidelity and intrepidity among persecutions, fidelity and intrepidity which he needed and had when, in 1914, the Germans overran Belgium. Practically imprisoned in his palace, yet he sent out pastoral letters to the two and a half million faithful in his see, urging them to patriotism...
...love of occult ritualism with the paraphernalia of foreign trade; it is but in self-defense: she smells of sandalwood still. Her cults her shrines, her potentates, her very homes and villages, are only curious mysteries to Caucasian eyes. Yet theirs are roots before which the Christian faith is a seedling. There is no power in intercourse with the west that can transcend this Oriental inheritance...
...asked. This sum is to be held by the Canadian and British governments. It was held that the Treaty of Ghent promised to put them where they were before the war of 1812, when they received their share, but that the payments made by New York in good faith from 1810 to 1842, before the claim was brought before the New York Legislature should stand...
...Greater love hath no man than this": whether they had or had not formulated a religious faith, they expressed such a faith. Religious calls for no higher sacrifice than his who died to save the world...
...righteous state of Tennessee of having "taught evolution" out of school books approved by that state's educational authorities. It is six months since lavender-gallused Clarence Darrow hunched his shoulders, thrust his jaw and tortured the late William Jennings Bryan with satiric courtroom questions about his faith in Holy Writ. Six months since pamphlet-scattering mountebanks, itinerant fanatics, land-sharks, pickpockets and cheap-johnny "scientists" jostled in the steaming streets of little Dayton, Tenn. Six months since the nation's press bawled daily headlines about a classic struggle between Reason and Religion, Brains and Bigotry, Science...