Word: creeds
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...duty like other general terms is often misconstrued. A whole creed and one which has had no little effect on human history is based on the value of each human life. So there are those who doubt the ultimate truth of this verdict. The courts of law at best deal rather inadequately with those criminals who are obviously sane. But when such a case as this boy's who has always been the wandering, misunderstanding victim of a cerebral insufficiency comes before the bar of justice, then the limitations of human law stand fully revealed...
...desire for publicity. I am not going to tell you that you have spelled someone's name incorrectly ; that in so-and-so line on such-and-such page a typographical error occurs; nor shall I take you to task for inadvertently or intentionally slandering some race or creed; furthermore, I shall not take this opportunity to announce ta you dramatically that from this time and henceforth you shall be denied the great privilege of mailing to me each week your valueless publication...
...most important of any is John J. Mitchell, President of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co. Last week, on the walls of his bank, in gold letters several feet high, he set up a creed. The mural apothegms were none of them original, but they added no mean lustre to the commemoration of Banker Mitchell's 72nd birthday, his 52nd year in banking. They ran as follows...
...came 120 bishops robed in scarlet and gold, and purple and black and white. And one of the bishops, Thomas F. Gailor of Tennessee, rose and read a sermon by another bishop, Theodore Dubose Bratton of Mississippi-a defense of the faith, a plea for the maintenance of the creed of the apostles. Thus at Audubon Park, New Orleans, was opened the 48th Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of America...
Professor Clifford, a leader in the fight for evolution, was quoted as saying that men made and unmade gods, that God is but the glorification of Man. Dr. Straton tried to show that this creed results in an idolatrous worship of man; the worship of man by himself as God, and a degeneration of morals such as we saw resulting in the fall of the old Roman Empire...