Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Bonduel's retired farmers and small merchants turned out in record numbers to pass judgment on Hot Rod's reform campaign, then ambled back to their beer and games of schmere and sheepshead. The count: 118 for John Froelich, 48 for Hot Rod. Said 51-year-old John as he began another term: "I guess I showed that young whippersnapper." Hot Rod's grandfather added: "I didn't vote for Hot Rod [but] he'll be all right after a while. He's like...
...These four things all suggest the need of the prophetic and the creative, in their response to God's judgment and demand for a renewal . . . What the Church did through its saints, apostles, heroes and martyrs in meeting crisis after crisis should give the lesson and the encouragement. The creeds were all manmade, under various social conditions and against various political backgrounds. So were the organizational side and the different theological developments. Under the present social, economic, political and cultural conditions here in North China, Christians should be courageous enough to dissociate the Gospel and their churches from historical...
...church organization, evangelistic methods, theology, and ways of living must undergo a radical change . . . Audacity of thought is necessary. There is no fear of heresy, for history tells us that creative periods have always been times for the emergence of heretics . . . But today there can be no more inquisition, judgment, condemnation, and execution. The fire that burned saints to death for heresy has been thoroughly extinguished. The trouble is that there is so little heresy in the Chinese churches, so little creative thinking, so little originality...
...workers, and in conferences of various kinds, to pay much real attention to the churches. Should the churches not take the opportunity thus afforded to show their determination to accept the challenge wholeheartedly? . . . Communism is man's challenge to Christianity, but it is also God's judgment upon flabby churches . . . When it is proved that Christians can accept . . . criticisms and prove them to be unsound and untrue, thoughtful Communists will sit up and take notice...
...power as a Liberal politician and later came to a colorful, if disappointing, end. These people had made mistakes, thought Tom, but they had taken chances. They had been of the real England "whose nature was rather affection than passion; whose gaiety was rather humor than wit; whose judgment did not spring from logic but from sense...