Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later Georgians knew about the catch in Canada. Soon Carnes would be in Atlanta, and many a Georgian, many another Southerner waited to hear what Carnes would say about the million dollars or more which represented the shortages in the accounts of the Southern Baptist Convention's Home Mission Board. Carnes had been treasurer of the board until he left Atlanta on or about Aug. 15, nor had he resigned...
Almost eleven years ago, when the perfunctory audit of the Home Mission Board was completed, a tall, ascetic-looking auditor made apt suggestions, so impressed the star Boarders that they sent for him a few months later when the treasurer of the Home Mission Board resigned. The job included control of the board's funds, paid a salary of $4,500 a year...
...they should be shielded from fame rather than educated by means of it. A century ago the attitude was different. For example, 16-year-old James Gallatin, son of famed Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, was taken to Europe as private secretary on the father's diplomatic mission which resulted in the Treaty of Ghent...
...arriving on the foreign-mission field, the new worker finds himself or herself in a totally foreign moral environment with a radically divergent system of sexual and personal ethics, which he or she is usually not prepared to combat. The possibilities for the stimulation and gratification of the sexual side of the psychic Occidental are more numerous in the Orient, and the continual flaunting of the erotic makes its impression on the unstable personality. If he evades it, it callouses his nature; if he succumbs to its wiles, it erodes him. In either case he may be thrown into...
...attack me. As for Stefan Raditch, I have always worked for the interest of the electorate and the King. I am sorry that I shall be unable to serve so well in future. I am ready to be taken out immediately and shot without trial. I have fulfilled my mission...