Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parks is one of many liberal clergymen who are banding together for the protection of the Reverend Lee W. Heaton of Ft. Worth, Texas, who is to be tried for heresy. Reverend Heaton's disbelief in the doctrine of the virgin birth is shared by so many powerful and influential clergymen that this controversy promises to cause a serious split in the church unless the conservative element retreats...
...conferences for young men to interest them in the ministry; we hear of the lack of young clergymen of high ability--and is it surprising? A young college student, used to independent thinking, eager for the truth, and anxious to enter the church, cannot be blamed for being somewhat discouraged by an altitude of opposition to all original effort and enterprise. If the young people of today lack religion,--and it has been the fashion for their elders to say so frequently particularly since the war; is it heresy to suggest that it is the church which lacks life rather...
...hundreds of social workers and physicians, and has proved its value, according to Mrs. Sanger. She appealed for $15,000 to extend the work to other centers at a luncheon attended by 500 prominent men and women. Cases have been referred to the clinic by many charities, hospitals, physicians, clergymen and others...
Birth control propagandists are in the habit of imputing interested motives to their opponents, as that doctors fear loss of obstetrical patronage, clergymen want a plentiful supply of church members from the "lower classes," military men want "cannon fodder," politicians want voters, captains of industry want cheap labor, etc. "Foxes think large families among the rabbits highly commendable," writes Thomas Nixon Carver, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard...
...Millikan is interested, as a world citizen, in more than the shoptalk of his trade. He is an influential member of the National Research Council and of various civic bodies. Recently he was instrumental in preparing a proclamation (TIME, June 4) signed by some 40 distinguished clergymen and scientists, that there is no incompatibility between essential religion and science. An article by him in a similar vein (A Scientist Confesses His Faith) appeared in the Christian Century for June...