Word: christian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Four mission study groups will start in the second half-year under the auspices of the Christian Association. The first meeting of Group IV will be held at 52 Mt. Auburn street tonight. These groups have been aranged to meet the needs of all students, each being arbitrarily allotted to a particular locality, though a man may choose the group that is most interesting or convenient to him. It was also planned that by making four groups each might be small in order to allow more informal discussions...
...writers of Wednesday's communication have assumed a premise to their argument with which the present writer is unable to agree. They call the proposed system "compulsory" instead of "universal" military service--and declare that it will be undemocratic and un-Christian because it involves the compulsion of conscience. Yet they admit that the proposed law will provide for conscientious scruples. Surely they do not put much faith in our ability to administer the law justly, and surely they do not consider that we shall be so busy organizing and training the millions who will be willing to learn...
...even admitting that the proposed system would mean compulsion of conscience--as I do not--it is submitted that such compulsion would be neither undemocratic nor un-Christian. All compulsion is not abhorrent to democracy and Christianity. Taxes are universally compulsory--and the payment of them may be against the conscience of some--but they are merely regarded as a necessary evil. Taxes are one thing which the individual owes the state. Military service is another, and the compulsion of a man to do his duty to the state is justified--even in a democracy...
...majority of the students of Andover Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Episcopal Theological School and Boston University School and Boston University School of Theology have expressed themselves in a petition to Congress as opposed to "any form of universal compulsory military training, on the ground that it is un-Christian, contrary to American ideals, and defeats its own ends by breeding international misunderstanding and distrust...
Robert Tapley '19 will lead the regular meeting of the Christian Association in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow morning at 9.45 o'clock. The topic of the discussion will be "Friendship." All members of the University are invited to attend these weekly meetings of the Association which are conducted at Phillips Brooks House...