Word: saviours
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...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...
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...
...stood victorious on the walls of Jerusalem . . . After 70,000 Moslems had been put to the sword, and the harmless Jews had been burnt in their synagogue . .. the bloody victors ... ascended the Hill of Calvary, amidst the loud anthems of the clergy; kissed the stone which had covered the Saviour of the world; and bedewed with tears of joy and penitence the monument of their redemption...
...Life, silver-thatched, 61-year-old Dr. Mackay pictures Protestantism as ringed by three dangerous enemies. The first is religious syncretism, which "denies that Jesus Christ is the truth" but "makes Him one single aspect of a larger truth." The second enemy: Communism, which "substitutes . . . the Proletariat ... as the Saviour of mankind." The third: "Political Catholicism" of the Roman Catholic Church...
...mauve-capped sentries pace slowly. From each of the 19 towers which space the mile-long encircling wall, the blue muzzles of machine guns point out over the huge (pop. 4,000,000), busy city of Moscow. Inside the Kremlin's walls, the tiny wooden church of Our Saviour of the Pine Forest, long since shorn of its bonds to God, nestles beneath the great golden domes and onion-topped towers of the Uspensky and Arkhangelsky Cathedrals, which are now museums...