Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week two happenings important to the effectiveness of religious liberalism took place-the merger of Christian Work and the Christian Century and the establishment of a Chair of Religious Literature and Drama in the Chicago Theological Seminary. The Christian Century and Christian Work have long been the two outstanding undenominational organs of this country. Their causes have been progressive religion, Christian idealism, Christian unity and the Christianizing of the industrial and international orders. To this end they have for the most part duplicated their efforts, although everyone knows that the Christian Century has been by far the more aggressive...
...Christian Century staff are Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, Dr. Herbert L. Willett and Dr. Paul Hutchinson. This triumvirate and their associates have ever been pugnacious for Christian standards. Often they have been thought "too independent." When most churchmen believed sincerely that the best way to enduring world concord depended on the U. S. joining 'the World Court, this periodical opposed it. An example of unusual enterprise for religious journals was their despatching of questionnaires over a year ago to every minister of every Protestant denomination in the U. S. They wanted to know which of their co-workers these...
Deemed less "radical" is Christian Work. Some 60 years ago T. DeWitt Talmage was its editor; succeeded by Dr. William M. Taylor of the Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan. Dr. Frederick Lynch became editor in 1913. In 1919 came Henry Strong Huntington as associate editor, in 1923 Dr. Frederic Remington as executive editor, and in 1924 Fred Eastman as managing editor...
...James Bissett Pratt, Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Williams College, will give the Hyde Lecture on Foreign Missions at 2.30 o'clock on April 7, in Andover Chapel. His subject will be "The Problem of Christian Missions in Buldhist Sands...
Professor Piper, speaking from the standpoint of a man whose place in the business world was exchanged, after long experience, to the university sphere, set forth these views in a conversation with a representative of The Christian Science Monitor during which he commented upon the recent expression, made in Nebraska, of a University graduate who asserted that his university had failed him by providing a background of idealism when he needed a concept of realism; by turning him out, in company with 1000 other young men and women, without practical advice, with minds trained in methods of study, crammed full...