Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From there they move to the drawing-room-style Celestial room No. 2 for contemplation before the actual ceremony of "sealing"-in a small room furnished with pale pink brocaded-satin chairs. In the ceremony called baptism of the dead, believers vicariously baptize their ancestors in the Mormon faith...
...with 75 chapels. Mormon leaders are sure the new temple will soon draw many converts. Said the temple's president, Selvoy J. Boyer: "Hundreds of people who have been through the temple have asked our missionaries to visit them in their homes to talk to them about our faith...
...sluggers as the Giants' Willie Mays (23 homers) and the Yankees' Mickey Mantle (83 runs batted in). Banks seemed a sure bet to become the eighth player-and the first shortstop-ever to hit more than 50 homers in a single season. Moreover, Cub fans with a faith in miracles hopefully noted that Banks was just three games off the 1927 pace of Babe Ruth when he hit his record 60 homers...
Died. Kaung Zang-tze, 73, Methodist bishop in Red China, longtime minister who in 1930 baptized Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek into the Christian faith; of pneumonia; in Shanghai. In 1949 when the Communist regime took over, Kaung Zang-tze refused to flee Peking, saying his duty was to stay and look after the Christian population...
Whatever else it is or is not. this is a book of profound patriotic piety which glorifies Arthur as the father of his country, and finds in the childlike wonder and faith of medieval England the crucible of future English greatness...