Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happily, there are at least two obstacles in real life to the achievement of any such diabolical design. [One] obstacle lies in the impossibility of keeping every living human soul psychologically conditioned simultaneously. In history up to date, there has been no schooling that has been able to guarantee to tyrants that their subjects will not revolt at last at some intolerable turn of the screw. The revolting-point may be reached sooner in Irishmen than in Germans, and sooner in Germans than in Russians or in Chinese; but in all human beings, hitherto, there has always been a point...
Noting a man with soul-piercing eyes board the same plane with him in North Carolina, the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser's Editor Grover Hall Jr. invited his fellow passenger to share a seat. Hall's recollections of this chance encounter with Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 59, provided Advertiser readers with an unusual portrait: "As the plane revved up for the takeoff, the Bishop crossed himself . . . The editor observed the Bishop's supplication with satisfaction, considering that the plea for the safety of the ship's company was in uncommonly eloquent and influential hands . . . Airborne...
...wont to be) "I do not want a handsome man- But let him be like Thee; I do not need one big and strong, Nor one so very tall, Nor need he be some genius, Or wealthy, Lord, at all; . . . (But) let his face have character- A ruggedness of soul, And let his whole life show, dear God, A singleness of goal...
...Technology of Salvation. While Evangelist Graham sincerely considers himself nothing but a tool of God, he believes in giving God plenty of help with some tools of his own. The tools he has fashioned add up to an intricate technology of soul-saving that might astonish St. Paul, bewilder John Wesley and give any Madison Avenue adman some ideas...
...months before the campaign is scheduled to begin, the first member of the Graham team arrives in town. Willis Haymaker, 57, who worked as advance man for such old-school soul-savers as Gypsy Smith and Bob Jones but thinks Billy is the greatest of them all, mobilizes the preachers and laymen of the cooperating churches into a vast cadre of workers. From 1,000 to 3,000 are tapped for choir duty. Between 700 and 1,000 become "counselors," and about 1,500 be come ushers. Women are selected to staff the ticket office and switchboards. Deacons, Sunday school...