Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decided to form a branch of the church in Nigeria, and wrote for more information to Mormon headquarters in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders sent back books explaining their laws and doctrines, and in 1959 dispatched to Africa Elder Lamar Williams, who was much impressed by the Nigerians' zeal and orthodoxy. Since then, the Nigerian Saints, governed by Obot and a council of 75 elders, have established branches in six cities...
Edmund Burke: Don't throw out the good in the old system in your zeal to reform...
...Velde announced that his committee would postpone its investigations of defense installations, munitions labs, and Hollywood hanky-panky in order to "get the Reds" in higher education. Harvard, watering-spot for members of the Eastern Establishment and breeding-place for radicals and Jewish intellectuals, would be scrutinized with special zeal...
...scholar, "I look at my group and think no more conservative group could be found anywhere. Then I look at the other orders and I think, no, I'm sorry, but we're still ahead." What keeps the Jesuits ahead is, in large measure, the fire and zeal of younger members of the society, who have plenty of ideas of what ought to be done. Many would like to see the society abandon all but a handful of its best universities-such as Fordham and Georgetown-and send its top professors to jobs at secular universities. Bored with...
...evangelism that still works is person-to-person contact, in homes or offices, made by Christians who witness to their faith by how they live, not what they say. This kind of witness most often produces converts to new, small and struggling churches, whose members have a natural zeal to bring in people to share both the burden and the joy. The conversion success of the Mormons (a 7.7% growth rate last year) and the Southern Baptists (374,418 baptisms in 1964) may be due partly to their custom of spawning churchlets as rapidly as possible. Says Dr. Glen...