Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic City at a missions meeting of the United Lutheran Church it was revealed that, out of 5,786 United Lutheran congregations in the U. S. and Canada, 50 wished more able ministers, could not find them. The United Lutheran missions board, to prevent such want in the future, adopted an "interneship" plan for seminary graduates. Outstanding candidates for the Lutheran ministry (from eleven seminaries), will serve four months as assistants in successful Lutheran city churches, four months in successful mission churches, four months in unsuccessful mission churches, emerging with a year's experience in about all the problems...
...September 1919 a scrawny, big-eyed Navajo moppet entered the mission boarding school-one of the few beginners whom the mission truck did not have to carry off like a stray dog. Deloused, cropped, outfitted with blue work shirt, overalls, Leavenworth-made clodhoppers, named Myron Begay to replace Ashin Tso-n Bigé, quartered in dismal, overcrowded barracks, fed on 11? a day, Myron nevertheless preferred this atmosphere to life with his stepfather. When his mother came to take him home for the summer, he refused to go, saying he was "going on the Jesus Trail and be just like...
...backslider from the start getting the worst of it in a fight with Apache students. Myron jumped in, was both delighted and distressed to discover he liked righting. That summer he let his hair grow, found riding better fun than driving a car, gambling songs prettier than many a mission hymn, backslid in his thoughts about pretty 12-year-old Buckskin's daughter, began to have his doubts about mission morality. In this tormented state he set off to unburden himself to Mr. Butler. Instead he unburdened himself to a strange Indian girl in an empty cabin during...
...have made him for half a century the liveliest landmark in Denver (called Goldtown). Nominally he is the mining editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald, at a life salary of $15 a week; in practice his daily pieces automatically go in the managing editor's wastebasket. His real mission in life is to fight the 20th Century. Tourists, those "fleas on the world's back." who always go for him with cameras, he always goes for with his swordcane. But tourists are small fry. His real enemy is 83-year-old Colonel Anthony Steele, who 50 years...
...have now formed an "ideal partnership," Hitler went on, "Fascist Italy has been transformed into a new Roman Empire by the ingenious activities of a compelling personality" and "Germany has become a great power, thanks to her racial attitude and her military strength." The two countries have the "cultural mission" of opposing "the Democratic and Marxist International" of Moscow which, cried Der Führer, "revels in demonstrations of hatred...