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For 21 years the Sunday Evening Club has maintained "a service of Christian inspiration and fellowship in the business centre to promote the moral and religious welfare of the city." Principally this service has consisted of bringing noted divines of all faiths to speak to audiences made up of all...
Editors headlined Dr. Cadman as world's first "radio pastor." For the most part, this was religio-journalistic enthusiasm. As many a radiowner knows, Dr. Cadman preached from the Bedford (Brooklyn) branch of the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoons, last year, over an 18-station web. And his...
These were the words with which Buffoon Will Rogers described the invocation of the deity at the sessions of the Republican Convention (see p. 9). Will Rogers spoke without reverence but he spoke the truth. Four divines - an Episcopalian, a Catholic, a Hebrew and a Methodist-had. prayed on four...
The medieval scientific theories have always furnished much amusement to the people of this more enlightened age. Particularly have students enjoyed the anecdote that divines of the thirteenth century argued furiously the number of angels able to stand on the point of a pin. But the layman in his attitude...
Nor does it show a careful reading of Mr. Lewis' Dunciad Ecclesiastics wherein divers divines do receive a sound verbal lashing as they do well deserve. For one could even cherish a Vagabond after reading of the vices and dirty dealing of the apostolic horde. Also it might be mentioned...