Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francis Greenwood Peabody, D.D., LL.D., Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus, died at his home in Cambridge on December 28 in the ninetieth year of his age. Having withdrawn from active academic life twenty-three years ago, Professor Peabody's long and distinguished service to the University is unfamiliar to its younger members, although until within the last few years his scholarly and literary activities had been continued, bearing fruit in a number of books and occasional writings of which his last important work was "The Apostle Paul and the Modern World," published in 1923. Of his earlier writings those...
...From 1877 to 1882 he was a member of the Board of Overseers. His long academic career began in 1881 with his appointment as Parkman Professor of Theology, a chair he held until 1886 when he succeeded the venerable Andrew Preston Peabody as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. In that capacity he had charge of the religious services of the University under the general supervision of the Board of Preachers, constituted in 1886. He was Acting Dean of the Divinity School in 1885-86 and in 1893-94, and Dean from 1901 to 1905. In 1905 he inaugurated the system...
Archbishops' Aftermath. It was chiefly the Church of England which was damaged, in the very fibre of English Christian morality, by the open scandal of King Edward and Mrs. Simpson. Yet there were outcries in the largest London newspapers last week against kicking the Duke of Windsor and his presumptive Duchess now that they are down. The Archbishop of Canterbury who is Primate of All England last week evinced regret that he had had to do so. The Archbishop of York, who is Primate of England, made his attack in the form of a pastoral letter...
...remember that any kind of love which can be in conflict with duty is not the love of which the Gospel speaks. Love which has its roots in mutual attraction and passion can be united with love which is the very nature of God and the best of Christian graces and this takes place in a multitude of marriages...
...considered likely that the Young Marshal, flush with millions, will travel for a time abroad and ultimately be given another Chinese Army under the Generalissimo. Joy in China at the happy ending of the crisis reached such transports that even that uncompromising teetotaler, "The Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, announced as a matter of national moment, "I have drunk a full glass of wine, toasting the deliverance of the Generalissimo...