Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pinchot is not the only wealthy woman who knows the difference between a "scab" and a striker. Last week, readers of The Christian Century were surprised to find the name of a great lady as one who had written a letter to that religious journal. The letter...
...want to tell you how fine I think the 'Passaic' number of The Christian Century was. I had been following the strike with great interest and had read every word I could find, but I have found nothing that seemed so impartial and clarifying and truthful as your survey of the situation...
...Lamont's husband is a partner of J. P. Morgan & Co., perhaps the most eminent. The Christian Century survey took up 27 pages of solid type and tended to be sympathetic with the strikers...
...Lord Bishop's subject was, "Why am I a Christian?" He outlined briefly the various stages of uncertainty through which he had gone as a college man and averred that he fully believed in the saying that "Every man must be his own Columbus and find his continent of truth." He subsequently gave four reasons which combined to convince him that the world was turning inevitably more and more towards. Christianity. Recently one of England's most eminent financiers approached him with the conviction that the Anglican Church was the only faction in England that could repair conditions...
...hospitals. When Vanderbilt University renounced Methodism to get a million dollars from Andrew Carnegie, he gave $2,000,000 to start the University of Atlanta. "The work of higher education," he said, "is not going to be surrendered to secularism. . . . To that Church at whose altars I receive the Christian gospel and sacraments, upon which surely I depend, I may safely entrust the things I possess...