Word: revivalistic
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...John G. Thompson of Kremlin, Va. is a little (3 ft. 10) but hefty (115 Ib.) Negro. When it comes to fighting sin, he is a mighty midget. Last week, before spellbound revivalist crowds, he demonstrated his pious art at Milwaukee's St. Matthew's Colored Methodist Episcopal Church...
Awakener. After two centuries Jonathan Edwards is chiefly remembered as the Calvinist preacher whose accounts of Hell scared New Englanders silly. Biographer Winslow revives his far more important distinction as a brilliant example of the New England mind. A diehard doctrinaire, Edwards originated a revivalist mass-technique and a revolutionary, individualistic concept of religion, thus unconsciously promoted a religious movement known as the Great Awakening. The movement swept away the old theocratic Calvinist dogmas of the Mathers, precipitated the separation of Church and State, paved the way for Emerson's transcendentalism...
...that the choice before the next several generations is "between the formation of a new Christian culture, and the acceptance of a pagan one." Eliot's idea of a Christian culture is not as unrealistic as his High Anglican tone may make it seem; nor as simple as revivalist Christians might think...
...autobiography, written aboard Edith Wharton's yacht, is eloquent, charming, but hardly exemplary. Descended from a family of fashionable Philadelphia Quakers, little Logan grew up in surroundings at once prosperous and zealously religious. His father was both an executive in the family glass factory, and a famed Quaker revivalist, as successful on manorial lawns in England (until he excited too much ecstasy in female converts) as in suburban camp meetings. His mother, an even more effective stirrer-upper, became known as "the Angel of the Churches...
...leading labor peace revivalist was Franklin Roosevelt. On the same day last fortnight, he recommended peace in a message to the A.F. of L., and via the "White House Spokesman" read to Industry and Labor alike a polemic on the evils of sabre-rattling. To him then went Newspaper Guildsman Heywood Broun. Let the President, said C.I.O.'s Broun, create a commission to give U.S. Labor the same cool study which was recently applied at White House order to British and Swedish industrial relations...