Word: sinlessness
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...mass slaughter. They distrust military men, cringe at the thought of exposing themselves to spy hunts. But Dr. Seitz is convinced that they must. Otherwise, they will endanger "the most important ideals which have been evolved by mankind since the dawn of civilization . . . Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western culture was being overwhelmed...
...came after the 4th Century. Multiplication of churches began to spread the clergy thin, and led to the short, popular "low Mass" performed by one priest alone, in which the congregation took little part. A notion also arose that the Communion was only for those whose lives were almost sinless. As a result of these and other factors, says Dix, the Communion came to be looked upon more & more as a rite which the priesthood performed for the laity, rather than with it. The congregation came to look, rather than to participate. "Heave it higher, Sir Priest!" was the plea...
...Once in a hotel in Birmingham, he told a Negro maid that his dummy keyboard (for limbering up between concerts) was a holy piano whose music could be heard only by the pure and sinless. Then he ran off a long, soundless glissando. When he looked up, the maid had disappeared...
...tardily but irresistibly after he was gone-his life was one of the most successful ever lived by man. Three others, and only three, are comparable to it in worldwide influence: Gautmma's self-sacrificing sojourn among men, the stormy career of the Arab Prophet, and the 'sinless years' which found their close on Golgotha...
...love the bloody Bolshevik--damn him by all means. I do not love the turbid Teuton--he was caught starting a war, and it is right that France, the sinless nation, should cast the first stone. But still less do I love that intolerance in our own political thought which makes us unable to contradict a gentleman, Senator though he be, without foamings at the mouth and manifestings of his (the Senator's) inner vileness to the sun. HEBARD PAINE '25. January...