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...many Roman Catholics, I hope, who are appalled at the shallow thinking of our Chicago brethren who became a pressure group protesting the showing of the TV film Martin Luther [Dec. 31]. If, as Catholics, we possess the truth, why do they resort to such intolerance in order to prohibit what they consider to be false from the beginning. We cannot deny the historical existence of Luther and his founding of the Protestant Church. Do Chicago Catholics fear the facts of history? I wonder if they realize how much their bigotry damages the cause of Catholicism and the fellowship...
...Pennsylvania farm. Wrote he: "We are delighted to do justice to a much maligned group of sincere believers, and in our minds and hearts take them out of the group of utter heretics like the Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons and Christian Scientists, to acknowledge them as redeemed brethren and members of the Body of Christ...
...absolute virtue is not the only command written upon the sheepskin Harvardiana-brethren, ye must not hide your light under a bushel. Consider the needs of the simple and sociable savages in the West, the rude frontiersmen doomed to destruction in their shiny Jaguars, the winning young ladies in their sororities and sewing circles-all, all waiting for that saving seed, that saving seed which only we and our apostles can plant...
...course by arguing that other sects are already established in the West, doing the Good Work. They say that there are already enough missionaries out there in the wilderness. They speak of the good appearances and glad manifestations of Pomona, of Stanford, of Sewanee, Kenyon, and Black Mountain. But brethren, it is plain that these sects do not have the true light, for Providence has not done well by them and they have fallen by the wayside among tares. If we sent good seed and good sowers out to them, they too would fall by the wayside and bring forth...
Therefore, we and our seed must have a care not to dwell among them. For, it shall be unto the University of Chicago and the University of California as it was unto Sodom and Gomorrah! Brethren, we must not withold our life-giving power, we must spread it broadcast throughout the wilderness to produce good fruit and choke these western weeds. Only Harvard can save; we must have a care for the cancer of heresy in these black and troubled times. Amen...