Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweet. The most definite movement in contemporary English religion is the Anglo-Catholic, a movement which accepts much of Roman theology and which desires, on its own terms, "reunion" with the Roman Catholic Church. To this Canon Barnes is greatly opposed. Said he: "A reasonable system of faith and thought cannot be derived from the theories peculiar to Anglo-Catholicism. The earnestness and zeal of Anglo-Catholics only make the more pathetic the fact that their system is a hybrid, bred by fear in the Victorian era.* Its founders were afraid of liberal theology. ... In Latin Catholicism, the ancestral sacramental...
...faith of Canon Barnes, a Modernist, is generally described as childlike. He preaches the way of Jesus, His rejuvenative power, the life everlasting. With these themes, he fills churches...
...possible for small nations to be forcibly annexed by large ones and no objection is forthcoming from an international tribunal such as is the League of Nations, then this is proof that civilization is declining rather than advancing. There is no one question that would inspire more faith in the League of Nations and gain for it many thousands of adherents and supporters than an immediate solution of the question of Montenegrin independence. This is particularly so in the United States, where the question has been brought to the attention of the American public and has received srong support...
...that arbitration backed by force was the only guarantee of security that would be accepted by France. Said he: "Arbitration is necessary, but arbitration is not sufficient. Arbitration, security, disarmament? those are three things inseparable. We must create something more than an abstract form of words. Arbitration shows good faith, but we must protect good faith. We must protect those states which show their good faith by accepting arbitration. When a nation has given an example by accepting freely and voluntarily the principle that all its disputes shall be dealt with by arbitration, then, whatever the size of that state...
...have the firmest conviction it will do so. Germany will keep the faith. It at length has a practical inducement to do so, for its responsible men hitherto have felt that Germany has been asked to fulfill impossible conditions. America's part in bringing them about, which is freely acknowledged throughout Germany, is not the least of its reasons for making a sincere and earnest effort to carry out the Dawes plan in letter and in spirit...