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...oeuvre no less prodigious. Pyramidal in shape, it rises tier on tier, each tier a gallery ornamented with sculpture and symbolic devices in unparalleled profusion. The pilgrim, ascending by these galleries, traverses a distance of three miles past carvings which constitute a pictorial Bible of the late or "Mahayana" creed. The intent is that the pious shall climb from temporal vulgarities-depicted with unblushing naturalism in the lower galleries-to ever higher religious concepts which are exampled by a symbolism progressively refined, as the worshiper toils upward. When the supreme dagoba is reached and entered a crude and only half...
...quarrel were speedily renowned. Yet it was never Bonfils, except as an exotic danger, who utterly captured the imagination of lonely sheep herders, grim miners, lusty ranchers and eager townsmen. It was Tammen. Bonfils had brains and intensity. H. H. Tammen had brains and charm. It was his creed that, if a man was going to be a faker, he must be a magnificent one. He kept his desk drawer full of paper money in small denominations. Any panhandler, honest "broke" or sleasy rumdum who got in? to see him?and any- one could?was sure of a handout. "Take...
...Louis before farmers, but in Manhattan before businessmen, that Mr. Meredith pronounced his farm creed last week. Along with that suave explorer-professor-Senator, Hiram Bingham, and that colorless, dispassionate labor chief, William Green of the A. F. of L., Mr. Meredith addressed the New York State Chamber of Commerce at its annual banquet. His cure for the farmers was no new bonanza - merely an old one, clearly outlined for action. He urged that a federal commission be authorized to fix and guarantee minimum prices on the wheat, corn, cotton, sugar crops and on the production of wool and butter...
...Coffin does not seek "the lowest common denominator, a minimum creed and worship to which none can object." Said he: "Anarchy is not an open question with the teachers and students in a school of law. . . . Christian Science is not an open question with the faculty of a college of physicians and surgeons. . . . Union Theological Seminary is committed to the cause of Jesus Christ, to His faith and His purpose and His redeeming power, to training men and women to spread His Gospel. . . . His supremacy as the revelation of God and the Savior of the world is not an open...
During the World War he attacked war in general and the draft in particular; was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for a speech made in Canton, Ohio, in 1918. Addressing the jury, he told his creed...