Word: godly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maintains that evangelism can reach into depths of degradation which psychiatry cannot touch. Says Captain Tom Crocker, onetime alcoholic and drug addict who is now in command of the army's famed Harbor Light corps in Chicago: "Overcoming drunkenness is a matter of prayer from beginning to end. God is the deciding factor. The job is too overwhelming to be done by human means alone." With evangelism goes fellowship. Misery can find company in decent surroundings along Skid...
...very sewers." A grey, wiry little man in the army's uniform stood up to preach. Twenty years before, he told his audience, he had crawled out of the gutter into just such a meeting, figuring that he had tried everything else, and might as well try God...
...them. He knew the angles. Said he: "The Devil will come and bring you another bottle of smoke. You'll go over to Second Avenue and sell a pint of blood for five bucks and get drunk again before the day is over . . . Come and get God's help...
Captain Olive McKeown said: "Come to the altar. Ask God's forgiveness . . . Come on down. It's nothing to be ashamed of-it's something to be proud...
...sprout. Its soldiers are its parishioners-generally people with regular jobs, who have made the army their avocation. The officers, who have dedicated their lives completely to the cause, are regular ordained ministers. Few of them are intellectuals; all have heard what they describe simply as "a call from God...