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Moderator Thompson's great problem last year was to dampen the shoutings of Presbyterians who interpreted their creed differently and sincerely. Presbyterian legalists learned a new patience last year for Presbyterian humanists; humanists tolerated the behavior of legalists. As a result Moderator Speer can give his energies to Church administration instead of to pacification...
...University of Iowa has just organized a school of religion in which earnest men will strive to teach religion as a dynamic force in life, rather than as a matter of creed, tenets, rites, thaumaturgy or priestcraft. At this aim, endorsed by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, the Presbyterian, "an official organ of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America," last week scoffed...
...prohibition forces in America might well take the words of Ramsay MacDonald upon the subject as a creed. He characterizes it as a great effort to keep people decent and to enable men and women to do their duty to their families and spend money upon necessities...
THIS small book, so Dr. Grenfell tells us in the preface, had its genesis in the request of various friends that he "put on record" what Christ means to him. Those friends may have expected from him a measured, careful statement of his religious creed, instead of which he gives them, and us, a brief but extraordinarily vivid autobiography. In taking this course rather than the other, Dr. Grenfell has very certainly been truer both to himself and to his subject, for, as he says, "facts are still the most trustworthy and verifiable things we know of." What anything...
...improvement of what is an unfortunate but over-advertised situation. In a previous article he argued that modern science and modern university education have removed many cobwebs from the youthful mind but as yet they have added nothing with which to refurbish the renovated area, no new creed which might serve as a guiding light; nothing to soften the rigid skeleton of science has been introduced...