Word: godse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dear friends, though little gods of tin
Daybreak was greeted by a ship's boy ("on the same principle as having family grace said by the youngest child") with the singing of a hymn. Further similar hymns were sung at almost every half hour of the day. But piety did not prevent the sailors from becoming...
"In the New World, where aggressive . . . Protestantism made the retention of the . . . African religion difficult . . . the most logical adaptation for the slaves . . . and the simplest, was to give their adherence to that Christian sect which . . . in emphasizing baptism by total immersion . . . most resembled the types of worship known to them...
In times of strain and calamity the old dark gods emerge from the jungle and crude, primitive religion comes back. We are today threatened with it again in the prevailing cult of astrology.
Moncado startled Filipinos by advocating "dominion status for the Philippines under the United States." Quezon and Osmeña stuck to their Nationalist platform, which calls for outright independence for the Philippines in 1946. But Manuel Quezon, whose passion for secession has been minified lately under the shadow of Japanese...