Word: rife
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present, continued Mr. Cutting, owing to the greater plunder to be obtained there, corruption is rife in the cities. They are now the plague spots, which if cleansed, would in turn purify the State and the National governments. Municipal ownership is one of the phenomina of the groping spirit of conscience. Certainly we cannot afford to leave this spirit in the hands of demagogues. The steadily increasing expenses of government, due to philanthropic motives, can only be rescued from incompetent hands by the organization of conscience...
...conclusion the Archbishop said that there is one form of human wrong which can only be put right by one set of people, the young men. We know the curse that falls on every land where impurity is rife, and only the young men can grapple with this. Sometimes we read stories of such cowardice, such brutality and callousness, that we seem to stand literally at the gates of hell. But there is one power which even the gates of hell cannot withstand--the power of the Christian church, and the battle is not ours, it is the Lord...