Sentences with phrase «attack social evils»

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Many who did not go this far stressed the need of human effort to build the kingdom, with a strong emphasis on the need to attack and eliminate the social evils of war, injustice, and oppression.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

Taken up in America, this view of the kingdom spurred Christians to an attack on social evils never before taken seriously.