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Europe's great Protestant theologian is Calvinist Karl Earth. Expelled from Bonn University in 1935 for refusing to take the Hitler oath of allegiance, he has been lecturing at Basel University in his native Switzerland. He leaves this month to lecture at the Russian-sponsored University of Berlin. Sometimes called "a theologian's theologian," neo-orthodox, nonhumanist Earth has exerted great influence in both Europe and America; when he speaks, churchmen listen...
...little mill children clustered lovingly about an owner, and "other airy projects" were too much for them. They presented their junior partner with a silver salver in recognition of an undeniable increase in dividends "and suggested that he give up his many charities." Even his "dearest Caroline," a devout Calvinist, began to wish ardently that her Robert would walk closer to "the straight and narrow way of God." Prairie Paradise. When, after discouraging years in England, Robert Owen's eye lit on an advertisement in the London Times offering a town for sale, he "saw, beyond the rolling seas...
...Protestant missionary in 1885. Though Seoul was swarming with cholera (Koreans call it "the rat in the stomach disease") old Dr. Underwood used to stride about unscathed in his black buttoned-up coat and white tie. He was extremely proud of the fact that he was the only ordained Calvinist in the city. Later he married a medical missionary, Lillias Horton, who became physician to Korea's Queen Min. Soon the Underwoods and the royal family, who were harassed by Russian and Japanese intrigues, were on very friendly terms...
...against the "ghastly fate" of maternal direction. By the age of 16 he had read "almost 1,500 books," including Prescott's history of the U.S. and the Bible. Most impressive work, he found, was called Immersion v. Sprinkling, "because it was passionately controversial." From being a devout Calvinist, young Harold rebelliously turned away from "formal religion," accepted the Sermon on the Mount as "good enough...
Halifax is a salt-rimed sailor's town, dependent on the sea for its livelihood, on war for boom prosperity. But Halifax also has a Calvinist moral attitude; Haligonians still squirm when historians recall that Queen Victoria's father flaunted his pretty mistress, Julie, in the face of Halifax society...