Word: devoutness
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Oblique evangelism is an attitude which many a devout Christian cannot stomach. He cannot picture Paul sidling into a school, hospital or household. Dr. James De Wolf Perry, presiding bishop of the Episcopalians, went to Japan and China at his own expense to see personally if his missionaries there were carrying on like that. Three weeks ago he returned, convinced that they still put their religious teachings above social welfare...
...Friedrich von Bodelschwingh "Bishop of the Poor" who was elected Reichsbishof only last month by a non-Nazi Protestant majority (TIME, June 12). Last week the Nazi Protestants, organized as the German Christian Church, manifestoed: "Protestants! Our true leader, Adolf Hitler, has expelled your seducers! He, a most devout Christian at heart, would have you find your way back to the Church. . . . Fight with us against church reaction and for German Christianity...
...write a book about saints. Glenway Wescott, self-exiled in France, has been dipping his Wisconsin-haunted nose in hagiography. This little (215 pp.) anthology of saints' lives, at least one for every day in the year, is "not a learned work" nor a book for the devout, but "a simple picture of a crowd . . . blessed degenerates, mere sportsmen of asceticism, man-sized infants, a demigod or two, politicians, fearful beauties, awful fools, and, of course, those for whom there simply would have had to be some such word as 'saint' even if Christianity had not come...
Whether the excommunication included only the Cabinet and the Deputies who voted the church laws or embraced the entire Government from President Zamora down to the humblest customs inspector, was not stated. Hardest hit was Alcala Zamora. A devout Catholic, he dearly loves the solace of the Mass. When Madrid hotheads set fire to Jesuit churches two years ago, plump Senora Alcala Zamora distinguished herself by driving in an open carriage to each of the burned buildings, sitting before the door loudly saying her beads...
TIME is in grievous error. Ignorant TIME will learn with surprise that the photograph is that of the Yuvarajah of Mysore (heir-apparent). The Maharajah himself has never gone to Europe or America, is a devout, god-fearing and good man. He visited the sacred spots on the Himalaya in 1931. A prompt retraction will, it is hoped, follow...