Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Sperry feels that real religion is strengthened but not created in fox holes. Going through the experiences of battle makes a man more thoughtful and receptive to religion, he claimed, but does not of itself put religion into...
Axis Sacked Religion...
...fine work of chaplains in front-line service, and the feeling of the people that "sober moral purpose in the future conduct of our affairs' is needed, are factors which will encourage postwar religion, according to Sperry...
...leave you with these words: 'I will be waiting for you at the downfall of the forces of the axe.' It is the most marvelous revenge and also the only reparation that a Frenchman may desire who up to his last breath had only one religion-that of his country...
...hymns (Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Sometimes I feel Like a Motherless Child, etc.). For the past year, service men and their chaplains have bombarded the Rev. Mr. Settle with requests to bring "Wings Over Jordan" overseas. Good-humored preacher-director Settle is convinced that U.S. servicemen are turning to religion more & more, and he offers as proof the two songs most popular with overseas fans of his broadcasts: He'll Understand and Say Well Done and Just a Closer Walk With Thee...