Word: repentant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demonstrated." But, to a man strong in the fundamentals of the Gospel, the kid-glove handling of the question of sin in many U.S. pulpits is still hard to take. Says Macartney: "One reason why we have so few conversions is that we don't ask people to repent...
...Then came a tragedy which none of us had foreseen. The great First Century Rabbi Eliezer once said: 'The Messiah will never come until the Jewish people repent.' When they asked him, 'What if the Jews do not repent?' he answered: 'The Lord will raise up a king worse than Haman* to smite them, and then they will repent.' This is just what happened. Hitler was something we never thought possible...
...worked in a branch police station, came home, and I confided my thoughts to him. He answered me: 'Mother, we must accuse him.' My son tried to persuade his father to repent, but this bad man not only refused to reform but reprimanded us. After that my son told me: 'Mother, it is useless to spare this bad egg. You should not recognize him as a husband, and I should not recognize him as a father...
...more than the average quota of campus sin. But to Fred Phelps, 21, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), craggy-faced engineering student from Meridian, Miss., John Muir is a weed-grown vineyard. Day after day this spring he has called upon his fellow students to repent. His method: to walk up to groups of boys & girls munching their lunchtime sandwiches in the quadrangle, ask "May I say a few words?" and launch into a talk...
Pltirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, joined yesterday in a demand for "a recognition of our own tremendous guilt and a desire to repent" in our foreign policy...