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...Expressed belief "in the gospel of the Son of God as our one hope of deliverance from the greed, lust and anarchy with which a resurgent paganism threatens to engulf civilization...
...evidently the shibboleth at Cambridge, if one may believe the newspaper stories issuing from that hallowed seat of learning. With the subsidence of the agitation for "credits toward a degree for managers of athletic teams," comes another still more startling--rolling onwards like a veritable billow of materialism to engulf the helpless philanthropist shivering on the brink. In short, "students are trying with good prospects of success to have the faculty recognize the philanthropic work done by students in and about Boston as credit toward the college degree. Several hundred men are engaged each year, under the Social Service Committee...
Christiamty in three ways upon life. It leavens it, because it raises man and his surroundings out of the earthly considerations that engulf him; it is the half of life, because through its influence the life of cities is preserved. London and New York have places where religion has not come, and these are festering and rotten. It is the light of life, because by Christianity we may see the way to the real life to come...
...looked up - I saw a horrid great creature with switching tail and fiery eyes. I wonder that I did not faint; perhaps I had self-possession enough to recognize the uselessness of such a proceeding; nevertheless I was paralyzed with fear, for the gates of eternity seemed about to engulf...