Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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February 24--The Reverend Professor Edward C. Moore, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Harvard University...
...years the Sunday Evening Club has maintained "a service of Christian inspiration and fellowship in the business centre to promote the moral and religious welfare of the city." Principally this service has consisted of bringing noted divines of all faiths to speak to audiences made up of all faiths. It is as non-sectarian as a subway train. The club's season begins in October, ends in May. The infrequent churchgoer, the stranded salesman, the sedulously religious, the homebody, the student, the tycoon, the clerk, these people and their like attend...
...passing by, might know where righteous men lived. Long after the death of Moses, Jews celebrated their Passover with the death of lambs; and in the ghettos of walled cities, there were bloody marks upon the doors. In the Middle Ages, when the Jews were hated most bitterly by Christians, the legend arose that the blood upon their doors was that of Christian children whom Jews deemed the most suitable sacrifice to their Jehovah...
...Presbyterian Church to support a particular candidate (TIME, Oct. 1). This is a flagrant instance of an ecclesiastic's attempt to drag the Church into politics. As a citizen Dr. Walker is within his rights in giving his public support to any candidate he pleases. As a Christian minister he is justified in urging the maintenance of prohibition as in his judgment the wisest method of safeguarding the sobriety of the nation. But he usurps an authority never accorded him when he uses his high office to tell the members of the Church for whom they should vote...
...Members of the Presbyterian Church are presumed to possess minds and consciences of their own. Many of them will not agree with the Moderator as to the chief issues in this campaign. They may feel constrained to support Mr. Norman Thomas* as a protest against much that is sub-Christian in the platforms of both of the large parties. Or they may decide to vote for Governor Smith because they sincerely believe that prohibition does not really secure the maximum of temperance or for some other of his policies...