Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought of Russia's controlling the rich iron mines of Sweden. Well might Great Britain fear the establishment of a Red Fleet in Norway's impregnable fiords. Italy might well look forward to Balkan aggression by a Russia secure in the north. Throughout the world, people whose faith in democracy remained might well blanch at the prospect of a totalitarian attack on the nations where democracy has been most liberally applied. But it was Sweden which owned those coveted mines, and Norway whose coastline was threatened. And it was the leaders of these peoples who, if their governments...
...work-crammed year (1936) Dr. Bates produced: The Story of the Supreme Court, The Story of Congress, Hearst, the Lord of San Simeon (coauthor), The Bible Designed To Be Read as Living Literature. Few minutes before his death Author Bates had concluded the preface to his latest book, American Faith, treatise on U. S. religions from 1860 to the present...
...then, one winter, Vag made a disturbing discovery. Be found that it didn't matter whether he wrote to you at all. Incredible as it seemed just a few suggestions to Father seemed to do the trick. The presents came through fine just as ordered. And so faith in Santa went into serious decline. In fact, speaking seriously, Santa, nothing ever went into Vag's ashean quite so completely before or since. Except the stork. For a while, Father, like an old silly, kept dressing up like you every Christmas. But it was a pretty dismal flop--and he gave...
...several years ago. More particularly, it recalls vividly to mind the kind of work the man was doing, at that time, and it leaves the discouraging impression that since then he has been losing himself almost as rapidly as hopelessly. Then he was a man who was full of faith and sureness, who could say about the deaths of Mio and Miriamme: "This is the glory of both men and women." Perhaps things like that were easier to say and believe a few years ago than now--but it is hardly a happy sight to face a stark demonstration...
Central act of the Roman Catholic faith is the sacrifice of the Mass, which commemorates and re-enacts the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross. Central mystery of the Mass is the consecration, by the celebrant, of the Host (wheaten wafer) and wine, which become, according to Catholic belief, transubstantiated into the Body and Blood of the Lord, and are consumed by the celebrant. Later, smaller wafers ("particles"), which are consecrated (and thus transubstantiated) at the same time, are distributed in Holy Communion. There must be some left over, to be placed in the tabernacle on the altar. These...