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...Messrs. Shaw, Wells, Freud, Conan Doyle, Haeckel, Neitzsche, Mark Twain, Anatole France. It concludes with a chapter on The Revival of Paganism and another called Back to Christ-or Chaos. Written by a Paulist Father, it is sectarian religious propaganda. It goes so far as to call a rival creed "not a religion but . . . a patchwork composed of odds and ends, shreds, and fragments of false philosophies, put together in an amateurish way by a sadly uneducated Yankee woman...
...reported that numbers of foreign missionaries, including many of the older men, were weak in the faith. This was followed by a resolution offered by a Fundamentalist, the Rev. Walter B. Hinton of Portland, Ore., proposing that all missionaries should be obliged to affirm their belief in the Baptist creed...
...Huntley of the Chinese mission field asserted that 49 out of 50 missionaries in China would resign rather than submit to being catechized as to their faith. Dr. Meigs of Illinois, on behalf of the Modernists, proposed to amend the resolution by striking out the insistence on the creed, leaving the statement that the New Testament is the basis of the Baptist faith. The cohorts were summoned to vote. The Modernists polled 742 to the Fundamentalists 574. So the resolution was shorn of its point-and adopted...
...Creed Was Singular, His Wives Plural The Life. Bulrushes. Long after, it was "remembered" that the heavens had resounded slightly and that a star had twinkled on June 1, 1801, when Brigham Young was born in Whitingham, Vt. Similar signals of divine pleasure are unrecorded for subsequent years when the indigent Young family drifted about western New York farms. The boy Brigham chopped, plowed, dug, sowed, lucky if in pants, seldom shod...
...Larry--In the first place, the Alimental Assassins are mainstays of a highly intellectual community. It is our creed that every great work of the intellect proceeds from an empty stomach. Do you believe this...