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Last year, the lecture was given by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who spoke before a capacity audience in Sanders Theatre...
...filled now with the strange chime of their singing. But last week the voice of one of God's servants ran through the sky like an invisible lightening, came, out of many boxes, into the parlors of many U. S. homes. God's servant, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, was preaching his sermon through a microphone at the first service of the National Church of the Air. When his sermon ceased, hymns and anthems, sung by a quartet, came out of the parlor radio sets...
...activities by broadcasting Bishop Herbert Shipman's sermon from a public meeting in Manhattan. Since then the Federation has broadcast daily morning prayers, a weekly Youths Radio Conference, a weekly interdenominational service, a weekly hymn service, a Sunday vesper service. Last autumn, the sermons of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, of Union Theological Seminary and of the Park Avenue Baptist Church in Manhattan, were added to the vesper services. Last week, these were formally organized as the National Church of the Air. A representative of the radio committee of the Federation is now touring western cities to stimulate interest...
...wicked city who have always been perturbed about their reputation, and who smoke that brand, this information is the straw to break the camel's back. The apparatus of modern civilization has had the tendency to throw the people into the throes of vice, it is true. Dr. Fosdick went as far as to say that a path bestrewn with chewing gum led as surely to Hell as to a telephone exchange, but to have that stigdra east on the subways seems Nemesis. They appeared the one wholesome, clean place where a man could go to get away from himself...
Raymond Elaine Fosdick, of Curtis, Fosdick & Belknap...