Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continue paying her U. S. War debt. The resultant economic situation, the Ambassador thought, would not be fatal to the U. S., "but it will be unpleasant." From this, he argued that it was in the interests of the prosperity of all peoples to follow "the Christian doctrine of the Golden Rule," which is "when you come down to it, the only true 'real politik' in the philosophy of life and that it is an unquestionable truth that he who seeks to save his life by purely selfish means must end by losing...
Marshal Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian Tuchun (War Lord), was marching upon the Capital. General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," discovering that many of his generals were "neutral," decided that he would not fight Chang...
...significant, most discouraging was the Actors' Theatre production of John Galsworthy's A Bit o' Love. It has become something of the mode to misprize Galsworthy. No surer example of the justice of this attitude has recently appeared. Mr. Galsworthy has attempted an emotional justification of Christian Faith. His curate hero has recently lost his wife in the ancient thicket of infidelity. He turns the other cheek and refuses to chastise the offending male. He refuses even to make a fuss about it and injure that unworthy's reputation as a rising doctor...
...seemed essentially an expert juggler of fallacies. His reasoning was hollow. However eloquently it was presented, its convincing power wears off the more one thinks of it. His three main accusations against the Theory of Evolution were that it was silly, a mere guess, and a menace towards the Christian Religion...
...Bryan, with masterly eloquence, declared that our only hope lay in the Christian Religion. Practically everyone agrees with him here. But what has this to do with Evolution? I myself believe in both Christ and Darwin, and fail to see the wisdom of not doing so. True, the theory blows into bits the idea of the Creation as told in the Old Testament. Our Religion is founded on the New Testament, and has little to do with the Old. I think science is strengthening religion, not destroying it. The more we study the facts, and begin to realize that this...