Word: belief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dusen, Henry Sloane Coffin and H. H. Tweedy. After each of the addresses by these men there will be an opportunity for questions and comments. Forums will be held on ten subjects which the Council believes to be of paramount importance today. They are: Problems of Belief; Worship, The World Task of the Church, Industry, Race, China, Social Relationships, Modern Education. International Relations and Vocational Guidance. These groups will meet each day and will give an opportunity for an understanding of the facts, through thinking and free expression of opinion on these questions...
...true and the beautiful will agree with the Bookman in its suggestion that, for the good of American literature and increased sales, certain authors forbid the dissemination of their photographs. One cannot look at Joseph Hergesheimer for any length of time and still remain confident in the belief that he has taken tea with Corrine Griffith as many times as he says he has. Christopher Morley undoubtedly has a very kind face but he does not appear to be as whimsical as his publisher's blurbs would have led his readers to believe. And, as the Books man points...
...hands of "the richest man in Massachusetts" lie the lives of two Radicals. On this man who has expressed his "thorough belief" in capital punishment as "the only thing to check wanton crimes of violence" rests such hope of pardon as two men may have who are condemned to be electrocuted for murder. Believing that trial judges should be "no mere moderators or referees," but should "guide and control" inquiries, he is now asked, in effect, to reverse a judicial decision when such a reversal will be universally interpreted as reflecting upon a member of the Massachusetts judiciary. For only...
...believe in God. . . . Science without religion obviously may become a curse rather than a blessing to mankind, but science dominated by the spirit of religion is the key to progress and the hope of the future. . . . The most important thing in the world is a belief in the reality of moral and spiritual values. The second is a belief in the spirit and the methods of Galileo, of Newton, of Faraday, and of the other great builders of this modern scientific age-this age of the understanding and the control of nature. . . . For while a starving man may, indeed...
...discussion will cover a wide field including such topies as "Problems of Belief," "International Relations," "Industry and Race," "Modern Education," and "Social Relationship." The conference will be split up into groups that will be headed by experienced leaders and these groups will meet for special discussion each morning. The afternoon will be devoted to general meetings and recreations...