Word: travailing
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...book, a 17th century antipapist bestseller - The English - American his Travail by Sea end Land: or, A New Survey of the West-India's-can be read for its wonderful period style and detail, but also as a curious psychological document of a man both brave and devious, mean and daring. As edited by Archaeologist-Author J. Eric S. Thompson, it makes a great story...
...Communist system which has found its bulwark in Russia. The churches ought to have shown a Christian and human way of dealing with the growing crisis of coexistence between East and West. But they were and are hopelessly linked to the bourgeois world. They did not even see the travail of those who needed them...
...their unappreciated travail...
...That does not mean that Christianity must be solely Western: its commitment is not to any society or institution, but to the simple precept of love of God and neighbor. The closer it stays, to that commitment, the more universal it becomes. At the same time, its very "travail through the western passes of modernity has qualified it, and requires it, to take a certain leadership in meeting the religious problems of the coming civilization...
...monastery precincts, and that militarily the buildings were nearly as strong in ruins as they were intact, could serve equally well as an observation post. But he still feels that the bombing had to be done, if only because "in the cold desolation of winter and the fatiguing travail of unresolved battle, the spell of its monstrous eminence was complete and haunting . . . To the soldiers dying at its feet, the Monastery had itself become in a sense the enemy...