Word: church
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rationalization idea underlying church-union plans had its most extreme expressions in the words of Philosophy Professor Holmes: "The terms you use do not mean anything to many young people; they sound to them, sentimental and vague. I have taken down a few statements made by other speakers such...
...language of the past. Instead of saying 'The Lord is my shepherd' you ought to be saying 'God is my storage battery that renews my strength' or 'God is my low gear that takes me up the hills.' "I do not believe the Church now, or its representatives look upon its function as saving men from hell and getting them into heaven. The real values are human welfare and the method of getting it is by human goodwill-I will not say love for that word too has been greatly overworked...
From Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South, the delegates received little hope of a Methodist union. Said the Bishop: "I don't know as we of the South could join a church union which did not teach a judgment to come and punishment for sin. I am not narrow and bigoted, and if the other fellow can get along without these beliefs it is all right with me. What I say is give me the fundamental message of the gospel and I can join with anyone and go anywhere with them. I must have...
Married. Hiram Edward Manville Jr. of Manhattan and Pleasantville, N. Y., son of the asbestos tycoon; and Ethel Bredt Schniewind. Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan. Married. Laird Shields Goldsborough. Associate Editor (Foreign News) of TIME, to Miss Florence McConaughy of York, England; in Goldsborough Church, Goldsborough, Yorkshire...
Yale University William DeWitt Mitchell LL.D. Vincent Masscy, Canadian Minister to the U. S LL.D. Henry Lewis Stimson LL.D. Arthur Holly Compton physicist D.Sc. William Hallock Park, physician (bacteriology, hygiene) D.Sc. Willa Cather, author (Death Comes for the Archbishop) D.Litt. Henry Knox Sherrill, rector (Trinity Church, Boston) D.D. George Leslie Harrison, Governor Federal Reserve Bank of New York...