Word: saviour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States are affiliated with no Church or Religious Society . . . Enrich yourself spiritually with the glorious and immortal teachings of the God-man Jesus Christ as those teachings have come through the centuries straight as an arrow to you. Sit back and relax and study the teachings of the Saviour in the quiet and privacy of your home. How? By enrolling today in the free Correspondence Course on the Catholic Religion. No obligation of any kind . . . Your only expense in this interesting and God-given Course is the three-cent stamp on your original letter. Write today...
...Shute and Burgess. By bribing Burgess $1000 to leave the race, Belcher won the commission for his friend Shute and gained a certain notoriety for himself in the bargain. Shute, in turn, grew tired of office quickly and finagled the honor for Belcher. So Jonathon Belcher, future saviour of Princeton, became Governor of Massachusetts in 1729. His reign was highlighted by an attempt to shake down the Massachusetts General Court for a higher salary by invoking the wrath of the King. This maneuver multiplied his enemies and they ousted Belcher from office...
...songs of joy and deliverance, started maybe a bit clumsily by the great socialist leaders, met only with condemnation amongst us, contented hearts and closed minds that we are? ... Why have we, who are living no more the lot of the poor, lost the meaning of the word 'Saviour...
...blame the Marxists for their thirst of an earthly paradise, as if God had not made the earth a Paradise first, as if the Saviour had not torn out the sin of the world, as if we were not saved, redeemed...
Back home, popular young Minister Sherrill went from strength to strength among the properest Bostonians. His first parish, the Church of Our Saviour, was in the tony suburb of Brookline. Sherrill's predecessor had been an old man; Sherrill's live-wire preaching brought a dramatic increase in the Sunday turnout. There he met pretty Barbara Harris, daughter of a prosperous Brookline businessman. By taking her to baseball games in the afternoons, Sherrill managed to court her without giving the parish gossips a chance. They were married in 1921, now have a son in the ministry...