Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Road Back. McKeown's was an old-fashioned kind of evangelical attack, but one from which the army has never wavered. From its years of experience on the seamy side of life, the army thinks that it knows as much about drunkenness as any other organization. It 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...
There are 105 Men's Social Service Centers in the U.S., where the army starts its salvageable wrecks on the road back. Manhattan's center is a seven-story warehouse building near the Hudson River. In a kind of communal living arrangement, the men eat together, sleep in dormitories, earn $1 pocket money after the first week, $2 after the second, and eventually up to $15. There is an Alcoholics Anonymous group at the center, so that the men can fight together against the temptations of rum. There is a recreation room on the second floor with...
Says the commissioner: "We haven't got the opposition we once had when we were kicked around . . . and our people had to fight for the right to preach in the streets. That kind of opposition bred the courage of lions...
...army had to change with the times, as the Devil himself changed, or lose the fight. In a modern world, the kind of social welfare program over which Ernest Pugmire presides is a sounder attack against the enemy than all the processions General Booth might lead today through Sheffield, and sounder than street-corner revivals. Ernest Pugmire's kind of attack also requires courage, and a Christian's stubborn patience and faith...
...Biblical ersatz with an Edgar Rice Burroughs flavor ("You will bring death to the village. Samson is our warrior"). And sometimes it lapses into pure Hollywood (Samson to his mother: "Ummm, you're the best cook in Zorah, little mother"). A dialogic highpoint of some kind is reached when Samson, handed a javelin to do battle with the lion, cheerily assures Delilah: "I won't need it. He's a young lion...