Word: insists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard indifference to creed as a terrible calamity. They sharply distinguish between the natural and supernatural and regard the word of God as inspired by Him, perfect and authoritative in every detail. They hold that the theory of evolution is unphilosophical, unscientific, unbiblical and unworthy of any scholarship. They insist on it that the gospel must first be for the individual before it can be for the group. They maintain that there can be no Christian unity except on the basis of unity of faith. The Lutheran church rejects all the religious tendencies which Dr. Lynch describes as being signs...
...Bellamy, however is probably quite correct in assuming that the great newspaper reading public is coming more and more to insist on accurate news; even Hamiton's "great bast" can learn a little from continued experience. That readers grow irritated when they find they have been allowed or even encouraged to believe perversions of the truth is becoming increasingly evident. One great Metropolitan daily goes to the extent of having a regular department devoted, when necessary, to a correction of unintentional errors. Although it is too much to hope that a short space of five years will see a complete...
...Ambassador Kellogg, his intention to reopen the Consulate at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and to appoint Charles Roy Nasmith as Consul. Premier MacDonald's letter to the Ambassador said : "I have the honor to inform you that after further consideration, His Majesty's Government are prepared not to insist upon the charge of exceeding their consular authority, laid about a year and a half ago, against the then American Consul and Vice Consul at Newcastle, and it has therefore been recalled." The quid pro quo in this agreement is apparently that the two accused men are not reappointed...
Maeterlinck is well-known as an amateur boxer and it was suggested that instead of pistols and coffee, he would insist on ten rounds and bare knuckles...
Hence, although he believes in the usefulness of creeds, Bishop Lawrence refuses to insist on the literal interpretation of any creed or of the Bible. Although he is personally inclined to accept the traditional idea of the Virgin Birth, he says its is not essential to Episcopal faith. Thus, before conservatives in the Episcopal Church can purge it of the so-called wheretics" they must settle with Bishop Lawrence...