Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young's second assumption is based upon a very restricted faith in the human race. Human morals are not dependent upon codes and creeds to any great extent. There is something much more fundamental in human nature which leads men to strive for the good, the beautiful, and the true. All codes have sprung from this human longing, and are but imperfect formulations of it. It is a great error to exalt a code, which is a result, not a cause of morality...
Quite convinced, Brigham hit this trail. First it led to Kirtland, Ohio. When religious competitors tarred and feathered Joseph Smith Jr., the trail led to Far West, Mo. Here loafing, slaveholding Missourians resented the presence of industrious Yankees and a singular faith, persecuted them, incarcerated Joseph Smith Jr. The trail led to Nauvoo...
...chronic religious conflagrations, western New York was then known as the "burnt over" district. Brigham lent ear to all itinerant moralizers, faith to none. Said he: "I saw them get religion all around me. Men were rolling and bawling and thumping." At 23, "to prevent being any more pestered," he became a Methodist...
Sinai. Announcing that Joseph Smith Jr. had made enough revelations to last 20 years, the Yankee Moses put his faith in hard work and sermonizing. He laid out his city, instituted communal economics, established a stream of immigration from the East and Europe by steamship and handcart caravans, drove the Mormons to make their wilderness blossom as a rose with a plentiful mixture of hard sense, humor, reproach and simple sincerity. He made friends with the Indians and fenced successfully with Washington. Under him, polygamy, previously furtive, became a public duty. Men took crones and pining spinsters as well...
...that blinds us often selfish, ignoble passion, impatience with those who oppose us, jealously, vindictiveness, fear, or avarice of wealth and fame. Sometimes the passion springs from better motives, a desire to help others unjustly treated, or eagerness for the success of a cause in whose righteousness we have faith I knew a man who made a rule when indignant to write a letter as strongly as he felt, then address if to himself and drop it into the mail. On receiving if the next morning he had an impression of the way it would affect the person for whom...