Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them, as fond of birds as Spencer and Stevenson, partial to public spectacles, keen of nose, "respectful" toward dress; that "he observed the habit while he deplored the custom" of giving tips; that his visits to churches "commonly involved the Baedeker rather than the Prayerbook. . . . He distrusted Eddyism [Christian Science] . . . recoiled from what seemed to him tasteless and tawdry in the external fashions of the Salvation Army [in England] . . ." Philosophically, Mr. Howells was a benevolent realist; economically, a Utopian. His humor was courtly; and though others have thought that it sometimes trailed off into tenuous banality, Mr. Firkins will...
Bryan. "I am not simply a scientist and a teacher but also a Christian. ... It is precisely because I am a follower of Christ that I most resent the attitude of Mr. Bryan. . . . Evolution is the universal belief of science today. . . . Many omissions of relevant evidence and some apparent misrepresentations of the evolution theory and its supporters may well be due to Mr. Bryan's unfamiliarity with the facts in the case. A lawyer who does not know law or a doctor who has not studied medicine is a quack and subject to legal control; even a high school...
...late, the editor of The Christian Century has been swamped with letters-furious, enthusiastic and otherwise-passing comment on his magazine's editorial of Nov. 20, entitled, "Get the Churches Out of the Chaplaincy Business...
...gist of what The Christian Century editorial had said was this: The obvious place for organized religion to begin warring on war is at the point where the churches and the war system come together, i. e. the institution of the military chaplaincy. Instead of this warring, however, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America had a bill introduced in Con- gress last February, the effect of which was to increase the number of chaplains from one for every 1,200 officers and men to one for every 800. Generals Hines, Pershing and Martin endorsed this bill, citing...
...workers found. These needy lives press us in the crowds, but no virtue goes out from us to them, as it did from Jesus to a timid, suffering woman years ago. . . . How many we have sent away, as we did Trotzky, raging against established government and distrustful of everything Christian, God only knows. But let us end this worse than misuse of the greatest opportunity that comes to you as a Christian citizen-the chance to introduce men and women to Jesus Christ on American soil...