Word: creed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admitting that what Laertius wrote of Socrates--"He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance"--is a fair creed for a university, how is an undergraduate to achieve that "one only good" and drive forth evil ignorance in the brief span of seventeen or eighteen courses? He is likely either to become so bewildered as to gain practically no knowledge, or to specialize so narrowly as to drive forth ignorance only in one field. The innovation of the Science Symposiums, the second of which will be held tonight, is an undoubted...
...Apostles' Creed affirms that Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, that he descended into Hell, that he rose (bodily) from the dead, and now "He sitteth on the right hand of God." These statements have been stumbling blocks to many within the Church and without. The bishops emphatically pronounce that belief in these statements has been, is and shall be required of all those who desire baptism or ordination in the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Dallas the "faith of our fathers" triumphed without opposition. No bishop dissented-and it was probably the first time in 2,000 years of Christianity that so many bishops have assembled to discuss their creed and have not disputed among themselves...
...deny, or to treat as immaterial, belief in the creed in which at every regular service of the Church both minister and congregation profess to believe, is to trifle with words and cannot but expose us to the suspicion and the danger of dishonesty and unreality...
...Some test of earnest and sincere purpose of discipleship for belief and for life is reasonably required for admission to the Christian Society. Accordingly, profession of the Apostles' Creed, as a summary of Christian belief, stands and has stood from early days along with renunciation of evil and the promise of obedience to God's commandments as a condition of baptism...