Word: repentant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still regards Youth Dedication to the state as at least lip service to atheism, and hence a sin. But hardheaded Otto Dibelius and other church leaders in East Germany decided they must henceforth emphasize the church's readiness to forgive; youngsters who submit to the Red ceremonies but repent of their action will be admitted to confirmation at the discretion of the local minister...
Claussen would be admitted to the HEC if he would "repent of all his conservative beliefs" and become "more liberal," Bernat claimed. Claussen called this stand "quite strange, since I am vice-president of an organization chartered by the Republican Party, of which Eisenhower is the leader. It is paradoxical that any club supporting Eisenhower should reject my application for membership." Like most of the HEC's 30 members, Bernat supports the Stalker-Peterson faction of the HYRC, while Claussen is a member of the Dawson group...
...head and closed his eyes. "Hear my word!" he cried in Shona, a native dialect. "It was your fault, sinners, that our Lord died on that cross. He was nailed up there because you have been liars, thieves and adulterers before and after he went to his death. Repent, if he is to return to your hearts and homes...
...ponder whether their failure 350 years after Jamestown to number more than a fraction of the Baptists and Methodists in that state is not due to their reluctance to admit tyranny before 1776 and superciliousness since. The Methodists and Baptists who set community patterns which discriminated against others might repent of their covert persecutions. And we all might repent of our sneers at Pentecostalists...
...straight as a horticulturist operating an outfit called Michael's Greenhouses, Inc., had a Manhattan rendezvous with Evangelist Billy Graham. Preacher Graham, though deploring the publicity about their meeting, acknowledged that he had first gone to work on Mickey in 1949, now has high hopes that Cohen will repent in earnest. Said Cohen: "I am very high on the Christian way of life. Billy came up, and before we had food he said-What do you call it. that thing they say before food? Grace? Yeah, grace. Then we talked a lot about Christianity and stuff...