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There used to be Sunday mornings in fair-lawned Montclair, N. J. when prosperous commuters, resting from their labors, dallied over the name of Harry Emerson Fosdick. He was queer, discussible, young...
Some Baptist women wondered whether their church was entirely fortunate. Certainly young Mr. Fosdick was nothing to look at ?his face was paunchy, his black knitted* hair gave an unkempt appearance. His voice, too, retained the flat tones, the slightly nasal twang of upstate New York. There was nothing about his person suggesting the aesthete. These, however, were trifles. There were more serious causes of offence?for example, he was perpetually stepping on the toes of U. S. sentimentality. And he often refused to come to the .telephone when he had retired to his study. But much was forgiven...
...next year, Dr. Fosdick will be traveling?to Egypt in November, to Greece in December, in the spring to Palestine. A man who has little liking for the press, and less for personal publicity, it is unlikely the U. S. will hear much of its most notable religionist until he returns in October, 1926, to assume the pastorate of an "inclusive church" which John D. Rockefeller Jr. is building...
Little did the contents itself remind him of that old-time miscellany of reprints from the works of Englishmen. In the new magazine his rheumy eyes encountered first, an article by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick entitled Religion and Life, Moral Autonomy or Downfall. It was a searching article, highly civilized, passionately logical, but little to the old man's ribald taste. He skipped it to peruse the first installment of Christopher MORLEY'S Thunder on the Left...
...have met at Northfield. Last week Dr. Moody's son, William R. Moody, opened the 43rd Northfield General Conference of Christian Workers. Familiar topics were given a new illumination by the following churchmen: The Rev. John A. Hutton, D. D., of the Westminster Chapel, London; the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, D. D.; the Rev. James Reid, M. A., of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Eastbourne, Eng.; Dr. William Louis Poteat, President of Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C.; the Rev. W. Fearon Holiday of Selly Oak College, Birmingham, Eng., and Melvin E. Trotter, Superintendent of the City Mission, Grand...