If the Church of to-day is to retain her hold of the crowd in modernized or Modernizing countries, it must either be by renewing her ascendency over those who form and modify public opinion, who even in the purest democracy are ever the few and not the many; or else by a reversion to the methods of primitive times, by some palpable argument that speaks as clearly to the simplest as to the subtlest, if only the heart be right.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell
As the nineteenth century ended, Virginia moved toward another constitutional convention-its fifth since 1776-with the hope of Modernizing the machinery of government.
"The Fairfax County Courthouse"
Ross D. Netherton Ruby Waldeck
They both realized that their Fifth Avenue home was rapidly growing out of date, so for nearly five years they spent their spare hours daily, in the, to Clifford, vital and seemingly unending details of Modernizing the old house.
"Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness"
Robert S. Carroll