Word: spirit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Episcopalians because of Pike's counseling and friendship, one of us a former Congregationalist, who did not believe enough, the other a former Roman Catholic, who was called on to believe too much. Pike is a great mind, a great spirit and a great Christian in the fullest sense of that special word...
Upon reaching Peking, the 15 young travelers went directly to the aid of Shih Chuan-hsiang, "a famous model sanitation worker" who carries night soil (human excrement), in order "to put into practice the spirit expounded in Chairman Mao's writings." They helped him haul his wares and "did minor repairs in the public toilets." Old Shih, as the Dairen youths affectionately called him, philosophized pungently: "With our night soil ladle, we shall remove all the mire remaining in society and root out revisionism to build a bright new world." As NCNA commented: "Although their hands were smeared with...
...waste in the desert but not in a city. Blowing up a $16 million rocket to get to the moon may seem wasteful to some-but it scarcely is, in view of what space exploration contributes to science and the economy, not to say the human spirit. War is undoubtedly wasteful, not only in matériel but also in the irretrievable waste of lost lives. Yet even here, it is a question of values-most American wars have been fought for human causes and values that its citizens considered no waste, whether it was abolition of slavery at home...
...reason why the talks have dragged on since 1956 is the belief of many churchmen within both groups that the spirit has been that of a corporation merger rather than one of genuine Christian renewal. To these critics, the architects of the merger have muffed the chance to work out a new creed expressing the Wesleyan faith for modern times, failed to provide for an interlocking of Methodist and E.U.B. structures at the local level, and ignored the fundamental insights about the real nature of ecumenism that have been achieved by other church groups...
...while good defensive play can sometimes inspire a team, nothing lets it down faster than a score on a goalie's mistake. It's hard also for a goalie to jump up after a goal with the 'C'mon guys let's get it back' spirit a captain should supply...