Word: changelessly
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...fight to oust Dr. Fosdick from that Presbyterian pulpit. One is Dr. Maitland Alexander of Pittsburgh. He is a rigid man, pastor of the biggest and richest Presbyterian church in Pittsburgh, himself rich. He is also President of the Board of Directors of Princeton Theological Seminary, famous for its changeless conservatism from generation to generation. The second leader is Dr. Walter D. Buchanan, pastor of the Broadway Presbyterian Church of New York City. He is an accepted spokesman of Fundamentalism, The third is Dr. John McNeill, of Manhattan. Dr. McNeill is of less importance nationally, but is the best orator...
...spite of the dash. On the whole, however, this piece of verse strikes me as the best of the three minor pieces; for Mr. J. H. Wheelock, in "Autumn by the Sea," lets deep call unto deep indeed, but with an unperspicuous symbolization: the sea is "autumnal" and yet "changeless"; "no trace of ruthless autumn lingers" there, and yet everything is remembered...
...theory that all matter is composed of infinitely minute parts, which keep their individuality unchanged under all circumstances. But scientists have recently shown that radium, an element, appears to change to helium, an entirely different element. This shows that the atomic theory is a mere hypothesis, and that the changeless atoms may be proved actually subject to change, if indeed they exist at all. Scientific predictions, then, may be said to be valuable only for a limited time, until disproved; no predictions for infinite time may be reasonably made...
...little men have made it, and how great it is. Around all life which ever has been lived there has been found forever the life of the loving Deity and the ideal humanity. All partial excellence, all learning, all brotherhood, all hope, has been bosomed on this changeless, this unchanging being, which has stretched from the forgotten beginning to the end. It is because God has been always good; because man has been always the son of God, capable in the very substance of his nation of likeness to and union with his father; it is because of this that...