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...found today more profoundly human and more intelligently interested in everything going on in the world than those in the ministry", said the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick D.D. in speaking on "The Ministry as a Vocation" last night in Phillips Brooks House. Dr. Fosdick gave a general outline of the work in store for those who intend to become ministers, both from the standpoint of a professor at the Union Theological Seminary of New York and from that of a minister of the First Presbyterian Church of that city...
...present there is a pressing need throughout the country for men with culture, breeding, and intellectual training. Churches all over the country are willing to pay a living wage, and more too, to get the right kind of men". Dr. Fosdick also pointed out that the minister of the future would be "up and coming" and would be on a par with men in the other professions...
...Fosdick also pointed out that there was an increasing interchange between denominations. The policy of not building denominational churches, but rather community churches which represent the spiritual life of the community, is now in increasing vogue...
...Procrastination is the misuse of tomorrow," declared the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick in a talk to Freshmen yesterday evening in Smith Halls Common Room. "To many people," he said, "procrastination means simply putting off a decision, not deciding anything. It is, however, a very definite form of decision, for natural forces continue to act whether you decide or not, and nature makes the resolution that you cannot make yourself. A ship drifting on a lee shore is as surely bent for destruction as a craft that heads directly toward the rocks...
...Fosdick then illustrated why procrastination was a form of decision. "You may think that in your garden you may have either flowers or weeds or you may not be able to make up your mind as to which you want. But while you are trying to decide, nature will take its course and soon even if you have done nothing your garden is full of weeds. Your procrastination has been a decision...