Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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College visiting, a favorite sport among the aged, was in full swing. From the "House" (Christ Church) to the "Skimmery" (St. Mary's Hall), not forgetting "Pemmy" (Pembroke), "Wuggins" (Worcester College), "Teddy" Hall (St. Edmund's Hall), "Jaggers" (Jesus College), "B. N. C." (Brasenose College), "Quaggers" (Queens College), hoary men, rejuvenated for the . time being, revisited the haunts of their college days...
...mixture of hard sense, humor, reproach and simple sincerity. He made friends with the Indians and fenced successfully with Washington. Under him, polygamy, previously furtive, became a public duty. Men took crones and pining spinsters as well as bevies of young virgins; Mormon theology was revised to show that Christ had had at least three wives. Brigham Young, as President of the Elders, had ultimate powers of selecting and "sealing" couples; and, when he rode out with a brass band to meet new companies of converts, spiteful tongues said he sought first pick of the possible brides. This is unlikely...
...Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" So said Jesus Christ to his mother, Mary. Bruce Barton, famed advertising agent, President of the advertising firm of Barton, Durstine & Osborn, puts business in italics. This is the contribution to theology made in a recent book* of his, in which Agent Barton genuflects before a Saviour who was, in his opinion, the Founder of Modern Business. Agent Barton has small regard for the painters who have shown Christ as "a frail man, undermuscled, with a soft face-a woman's face, covered by a beard...
Rapid in style as a circus poster, with about the same literary value; sound in doctrine because it is concerned with the concrete thing, the life of Christ, instead of the cloudy figuration, Christianity; unsound because it is totally uncritical, this book is an earnest attempt by Mr. Barton to make Christ in his own image...
...issue is whether the Presbyterian shall be, like the Roman Catholic, a church of hard and fast dogma, unalterably decreed by the head of the Church, or whether it shall be a Church including in its membership all those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as their divine Lord and Master and who desire to do His will...