Word: savioring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Here is a statement on the contradiction between Christianity and Masonry by a Mason who frankly renounced Christianity: "If 'we are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, by faith and not for our own works or deservings' (Christianity), then it cannot possibly be true that the All-Seeing Eye 'pervades the inmost recesses of the human heart and will reward us according to our merits' (Masonry). One of these declarations excludes the other...
...irate Englishman wrote to the London Times protesting a rumor of the possible destruction of St. George's Church in Gravesend, where Pocahontas, savior of Captain John Smith and wife of John Rolfe, has been buried for more than 330 years: "When we are . . . doing our utmost to attract American visitors it seems singularly shortsighted to destroy a building which . . . [could] draw them to Gravesend in large numbers...
...Converts. But wrestling and the roller derby, hippodromed spectacles that masquerade as sports, hailed television as a savior. The roller derby, after a dozen years of life in the back streets, still ranked in popularity with curling and hurling when it went on TV in 1947. Since then it has played to sellout audiences, 90% of whom first saw it over TV. Wrestling, too, had a sweaty, dying pallor until it was hurried onto TV as an inexpensive fillin. So astounding was its success that when Promoter Ned Irish put a wrestling match into Madison Square Garden last month...
...Savior to help...
...sound of the bells was a more than abstract symbol of the army's obedience to Christ's command. Only a few avowed Christians have tried to follow one of Christ's injunctions so literally. On the Mount of Olives, the Savior had preached: "I was a stranger, and ye took me in ... naked, and ye clothed me ... In prison, and ye came unto me . . . Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto...