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...renaissance of religion is taking place," declared the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick D.D. yesterday afternoon at a joint meeting of the Graduate Schools Society and the Business School Club in the Living Room of the Union...
...analyzing this new movement toward faith, this era of spiritual restlessness, Dr. Fosdick brought out several factors that he considered to be the fundamental sources of modern religion. He showed that an intellectual revolt from the hard, materialistic view of the world was becoming more and more in evidence...
However, Dr. Fosdick stated that he was not predicting a return to dogma, but rather a growing mistrust in the intellect as the sole guide of life without reference to the spiritual side...
...Fosdick mentioned the pitiful role our much-vaunted civilization has played in Christianizing the Far East. "We did not really recognize Japan as an equal," he said, "until she had slain her thousands in the Russo-Japanese War." Bringing matters a little nearer home, he mentioned the fact that Channing Pollock, writer of "The Fool" had declared that it took him three years to get the play accepted because the producers did not believe that the "public cared for that sort of thing...
...University Faculty, Emeritus, Reverend R. C. Smith of Ipswich, Mass., Reverend Samuel Eliot of Boston, Reverend T. G. Soares of Chicago, Reverend C. E. Park of Boston, Bishop F. J. McConnell of Pittsburg, Reverend H. S. Coffin of New York, Bishop C. H. Brent of Buffalo, Reverend H. E. Fosdick of New York Reverend Raymond Calkins of Cambridge, Reverend H. H. Tweedy of the Yale School of Religions, Reverend Karl Reiland of New York, Reverend O. E. Maurer of New Haven, Bishop C. D. Williams of Detroit, Reverend O. S. Davis of Chicago, Reverend G. C. Coulton of Cambridge, England...