Word: self-control
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...that not of Acts but of the Apostle Paul. And the authentic proof of the Spirit's presence is not in flames of fire or "speaking with tongues" but in the "fruits of the Spirit" as Paul defines them: "love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control." At Amsterdam, these "fruits" were abundantly evident within the World Council Assembly. Time and again in Christian history, there have been dramatic reenactments of Pentecost, with dubious enduring spiritual fruitage. It may well be the judgment of history that the Living Spirit was far more effectively at work...
...increases as a major cause of inflation. The real root of the disease, he said, was expansion of bank credit, and the cure was in deflating it. His point had merit, but his attitude, like almost every businessman's, was that the other fellow ought to have more self-control...
...unjust power. He said it was better to be poor and secure with a home spinning wheel than to be less poor and frightened with a great steel mill. He combined the elements into a belief of Christlike simplicity: oppose hate with love, greed with openhandedness, lust with self-control; harm no feeling creature. Of material progress, he said: "I heartily detest this mad desire to destroy distance and time...
...which they include the beaten and disintegrating Qualunquists (Common Man Front) and the Movimento Sociale Italiano, which is frankly fascist but small and weak. Actually the Communist target was the pro-Western, Christian Democratic Government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Communist objective was to test the efficiency and self-control of the Government police...
...Bertrand Edward Dawson, First Viscount Dawson of Penn, 80, physician to Britain's Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI; of pneumonia; in London. First British medical peer since Lister, he shocked the House of Lords with his outspoken views on birth control ("you should not have self-control when you are making love"), prohibition ("alcohol aids the digestion, brightens the outlook"), divorce ("when a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning"). He penned the famed sentence broadcast when George V lay a-dying in 1936: "The King's life...