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...drop in at Appleton Chapel on any Sunday morning when Dean Brown of Yale, or Harry Emerson Fosdick is going to preach you will find it crowded with students, every seat taken and throngs of boys standing up to listen. The boys are there because they want to be, for there is no compulsion in the matter of attendance...
...Unless man's capability to handle the enormous civilization he has created is increased the organization is likely to annihilate him." Thus Raymond Fosdick in his address before the Institute of Arts and Sciences at Columbia expresses a fear which all intelligent moderns must eventually feel. No one who appreciates this monster which man in the role of a Frankenstein has created can remain apathetic. So from the agile minds of certain European intellectuals as well as from "old school" Americans have come their expressions of fear. But while these have beaten the air of a careless world with...
...church good press agent material. For some time now the attempt on the part of certain New York preachers to fill their churches and to cover themselves with glory, has made of religion the farce which many people delight in thinking it. Truly great preachers like Dr. Fosdick whose stand has been unique in its clarity and sincerity of purpose, though they admit the need of internal reform, refuse to consider the irregularities of church doctrine as absolute issues...
Page 23, TIME, Sept. 21: "He [Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick was ever a Baptist." Why not is? Has he ever been any thing else since he has belonged to any denomination? I believe Dr. Fosdick has retained his membership in the Montclair Baptist Church even since he has preached at the First Presbyterian Church, New York...
...generations find in his trust in God, his loyalty to his Cause, his love of men, his quenchless hope, in these timeless and universal qualities suffused by his divine spirit, their unsurpassable and complete Ideal."?From Manhood of the Master, one of the books by Dr. Fosdick which has taken his "circulation" well beyond the million mark...