Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...converted to Christianity while studying at Shanghai's Methodist mission school in 1918. At first he was devout, but, says he: "Gradually my religious zeal ebbed because of conflict within the Methodist Church between fundamentalists and modernists. I myself couldn't make up my mind. . . ." But when the Generalissimo was delivered from Kidnaper Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, Convert Wu considered it a "miracle," began to study religion once again. "I discovered that, for myself, fundamentalism wasn't fundamental enough, modernism wasn't modern enough. In 1937 I was admitted into the Catholic Church...
...Even the dispensers of the Koran, so comparable to the Rusians in their zeal," be smiled, "though the Kismet needed a little help from the scimitar...
With great zeal and cunning...
Bearers of the Word. In the rear of his church Bishop Ruesga trains a small class of earnest young Indians to become evangélicos-Protestant teachers. His Church of God, though one of Mexico's smaller Protestant sects, is noted for its missionary zeal...
This belief was the essence of his gospel. For five decades, in most of his 76 volumes, Wells preached it with the intense passion and reckless zeal of a religious fanatic...