Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is only one way of fairly and finally settling any controversy or question, and that is in consonance with the principles of the Christian religion...
...Albion, Michigan, is a private school for "bad" boys called The Starr Commonwealth for Boys. Mr. Starr, founder of the Commonwealth, rebuilds boys by keeping them occupied and giving them good influences. To do this, according to The Christian Science Monitor, he selects and reads " every book and magazine that comes to the school...
What is more, he addressed a gathering of Rotarians and told them: " I was particularly careful about choosing the newspaper the boys would read . . . The Christian Science Monitor was selected because I believe it to be the cleanest paper in the country. It prints no accounts of crime or scandal; it is reliable; it Carries international news and articles of educational worth . . . The Christian Science Monitor is the only newspaper I allow the boys to read...
From another source comes a despatch stating that General Feng Yu-Hsiang, known as the "Christian General," is about to exterminate the bandits with the legendary " one fell swoop." In the face of official reports from Peking there is probably not a word of truth in this contention. The Washington Post, in an editorial, humorously sums up the character of the Christian hymn-singing army: " An American officer reported that he had heard Chinese soldiers on the march singing to the tune of Onward, Christian Soldiers, but the words meant something different. They sang the Doxology at meals...
...Philadelphia attack Dr. Fosdick's right to preach in the pulpit of the First Church, New York. The Fundamentalists hold that the Bible is proved by prophecies which have come true, and miracles like the Virgin Birth, which demonstrate the Divinity of Christ, and the absolute superiority of Christianity over all other religions. Dr. Fosdick points out the similarities between Christian miracles and those of other religions, and declares that the might of Christianity is in its Christ, not in the prophecies or miracles which have clustered about...