Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evangelist Billy Graham, who was conducting a revival meeting in Nashville, came an urgent invitation from the Ministerial Alliance of Phenix City, Ala. Would Preacher Graham bring his crusade to Phenix City for a "sin-killing, old-time revival, reaching into every soul?" This, to many, was just what the doctor ordered, since Phenix City, once known as Sodom, was in the midst of a political upheaval following the murder of a candidate for attorney general and the revelation of a pack of other high crimes (TIME, June 28). But before Graham could reply, the answer came from a different...
...often our words have been impotent because they have not been incarnate in relevant works of service . . . It is not enough for the church to speak out of its security. Following our incarnate and crucified Lord, we must live in such identification with man, with his sin, his hopes and fears, his misery and needs, that we become his brother and can witness . . . to God's love for him. Those outside the church make little distinction between faith and works...
There are many other matters to which the Labour leaders might direct their curiosity. They might-if they can -seek out Kao Kang, who was the much-lauded ruler of Manchuria until this year he committed the unpardonable sin of "standing up against the party." Mr. Bevan should find this an enlightening interview. They might contrast the official announcement at the end of June that, "for the first time in many centuries," the peasants along the Huai river could now live without fear of floods, with the devastation that has since struck the area. They might raise the question...
...Worker last week, Platt shamefacedly confessed his sin. Wrote he: "I very carelessly lumped the tabloid weekly Jet with the others. Deplorable as it sounds, I never even looked through Jet until today. What happened was this: I was lunching at a newsstand and saw this title displayed together with others, and I jumped to the conclusion that they were all alike . . . Now that I have had a chance to look through Jet, I can see that it is quite different from the others." Then Platt confessed the worst sin...
...Kingdom) have made the most of it. Now enters Dutch Novelist Arie van der Lugt with The Crazy Doctor, to show that the everlasting contest goes on in Holland too. It is, after all, a universal story, its interest limited only by the writer's originality in fashioning sin and in keeping the priest's skill within the bounds of spiritual fair play...