Word: worship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 600 years ago, an unknown English mystic began writing a little book addressed to a young man who planned to devote his life to the contemplative worship of God. It is still one of the great manuals of the devotional life...
...This fact was remarkably well demonstrated in the early days of the New Deal, when move furor was created over the A.A.A. slaughter of "the little pigs" to maintain the Chicago price than all the Chinese babies that were bounced around on Japanese bayonets. This backwash of barbaristic animal worship has cropped up vigorously upon the local scene in the hearings of the Miles-Nolan vivisection bill at the State House, where pet owners have been explaining daily why the life of a stray dog is worth more than any diabetic, paralysis victim, or ricket patient just as long...
...keeps in trim scrapping with the skipper. But when the captain refuses the crew a desperately needed shore leave, Mr. Roberts, to get it for them, promises to toe the line. The amazed and disgusted crew thinks that Mr. Roberts has ratted, only to find out the truth and worship him the more...
...spite of Walton's strict beliefs, the George School is as informal as a public high school. The boys dress in brightly colored sweaters, the girls have adopted the New Look. Students and teachers eat and work and worship together; and they all attend informal dances on Saturday night. Students of other faiths make up about half of George's enrollment...
...Niebuhr, the evangelical churches could not cope with the moral issue of slavery and therefore channeled their energies into "a scrupulous legalism, expressed in extravagant rules of Sabbath observance and a prurient attitude toward sex problems." In the North, evangelicalism "degenerated into that mixture of religious sentiment and the worship of prosperity, success and comfort which inevitably . . . obscures, rather than clarifies, the real issues of life...