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Undergraduates, their relatives and friends, attending the annual Baccalaureate Sermon in Memorial Church Sunday, heard President Conant counsel that this nation must deploy its spiritual forces in the contest against the Soviet Creed...
...begins, Father Cawder is glumly refusing a gift of pew cushions from a wealthy widow in his Maryland parish. The incident reveals the man: he suspects comfort as the devil's lure, believes the essence of faith is self-denial. Yet, while Father Cawder lives by his ascetic creed, he tortures himself with the suspicion that his attitude is rooted in vanity...
...lecture circuit through four Ontario cities last week, two ministers of religion preached a confusing creed. They spoke soothingly of peace, but hinted darkly of the power of Russian atom bombs. They professed faith in God, then praised the ways of Soviet Communism. One of them, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, the Church of England's "Red Dean" of Canterbury, was an old hand at following the twists & turns of the Communist line. The other was a comparative stranger. He was a Toronto doctor of divinity, James Endicott, 52, a United Church minister only recently arrived in the front...
...manages to encompass the round story of the Resistance and Liberation; there was more altruism, idealism and common sense to it than Author Aymé admits. But he does strike a stout blow for the easygoing natural man in his perennial struggle with those to whom "an idea or creed takes precedence over life itself." The rest of Author Aymé's assumption is that the easygoing fellow is doomed from the start...
Professors Kirtley F. Mather and Clyde M. Kluckhohn disagreed sharply last night on the value of Christianity as a universal creed. Kluckhohn told a Congregational-Presbyterian Student Fellowship forum that Christianity is an "arrogant ethnocentrism;" Mather, also speaking at the Cambridge Congregational Church, called for a "now birth of the religion of Jesus...