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Charles R. Brown, New Haven S. Parkes Cadman, Brooklyn Henry Sloane Coffin, Manhattan Russell H. Conwell. Philadelphia Harry Emmerson Fosdick, Manhattan Charles W". Gilkey, Chicago George A. Gordon, Boston Newell D. Hillis, Brooklyn Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, Maiden, Mass. Lynn H. Hough, Detroit Charles E. Jefferson, Manhattan Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Pittsburgh Bishop Wm. F. McDowell, Washington, D. C. Mark A. Matthews, Seattle William P. Merrill, Manhattan G. Campbell Morgan, London, Eng., at present in Manhattan Joseph F. Newton, Manhattan Merton S. Rice, Detroit Frederick F. Shannon, Chicago Robert E. Speer, Manhattan John T. Stone, Chicago William A. Sunday, Winona...
...Fosdick has for several years been in the thick of the fight between the Modernists and Fundamentalists. As the Baptist minister of a Presbyterian Church, he became the object of attack by both religious bodies. He especially incurred the wrath of William Jennings Bryan, who believes with Dr. John Roach Straton, that "there are no missing links and no ape men." The culmination of this bitter and pitiless attack on the great liberal religious leader came last fall when the First Presbyterian Church of New York, where Dr. Fosdick has been minister, for several years, decided to sever all relations...
Last year Dr. Fosdick spoke in the Living Room of the Union on "What Is Christianity?" In that speech he emphasized the fact that Christianity was not merely giving to the church. He said, "Christianity is a way of living. . . Do you know of any way of living with yourselves, with your fellows, and with your God, that compares with this...
...sermon yesterday morning, Dr. Fosdick again emphasized this fact. He pointed out that Christianity was neither a superfluity nor an abnormality imposed on life, but that it was life itself...
...Harry Emerson Fosdick of New York will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock this morning...