Word: exhortation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Massachusetts Americans for Democratic Action invited State Treasurer Foster Furcolo, a onetime (1949-52) Fair Dealing Congressman, to speak to their state convention last week, they thought they would get the typical pep talk with which ADAers exhort each other to do battle with the "forces of reaction." Instead they got a sharp jolt: Democrat Furcolo, who is expected to run for the U.S. Senate next year, as much as told them they should pack up and disband...
City officials in the front row almost winced before the tensed, gesticulating hands of the 38-year-old Jesuit. His voice dramatically softened: "It is not the church's job to solve all the questions of society. But we do exhort you to a crusade against passiveness and smug satisfaction." A pause, then the loudspeakers fairly rattled: "Against this and the bit of social swine that lies...
Last week, in Little Rock's Hotel Marion, "Ham" Moses threw a steak dinner for some 700 top Arkansans to report on progress and exhort his guests to still greater accomplishments. Arms waving, tangled grey hair falling over his eyes, Ham Moses ticked off some impressive statistics on Arkansas' ten-year growth...
...nothing less than the "striving to know and to love God," and the human conscience is nothing less than God's "ambassador." The study of history, therefore, is essentially the study of conscience. "The weight of opinion is against me," cried Acton to his students, "when I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong...
...London church and among the rough poor of London. He went to India to work quietly in Calcutta and Bombay as an obedient priest. War came, and he joined the R.A.F., not as a chaplain but as an aircraftman, since he believed that he could not, as a priest, exhort others to fight. But many operations had left him weak. He fell sick again and went back to South Africa...