Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Lewis Oliver Hartman of Zion's Herald, 112-year-old voice of Methodism in New England, had heard no "call to prayer from the pen of the present President of the United States." He felt "impressed with the crying need of such a summons at a time like this." So Editor Hartman printed on the cover of his last week's issue a call to prayer by Abraham Lincoln and on his editorial page he sorrowfully flayed Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...sure," wrote Editor Hartman, "there is here and there a little lip-service to the Almighty and upon occasion the President worships in a historic Washington church. Doubtless in his private life he recognizes an Unseen Power. But we cannot forget that Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated his term, not by any provision to quench the spiritual thirst of the American people with the water that springs up into eternal life, but with the unloosing of the liquor evil...
Calling the President's efforts to end unemployment a "noble ministry," Editor Hartman nevertheless declared: "But the whole task of reconstruction has been conceived in materialistic terms. God has been left out. We do not mean by this that His name has not been mentioned, but that there has been a strange and persistent failure to recognize those higher spiritual meanings and values for which the word 'God' stands. Although there are 60,000,000 church members in the United States of America, when has Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an earnest and arresting call . . . for their help...
Concluded Editor Hartman : "The President has not yet caught up with the social creed of the churches. He is dillydallying with the profitmakers...
...more right to be vexed at the impudence of a San Bernardino Naturopath named Emerson B. Hartman than William Bradley Coley, mightily esteemed Manhattan cancer specialist. Naturopath Hartman advertises himself: ''CANCER SPECIALIST using the ANTITOXIN that has CURED the worst cancers known." Although his "antitoxin" is the stuff which Dr. William Frederick Koch, a discredited Detroit physician, exploits, the specious idea behind it skulks in the shadow of the very real cures of certain kinds of bone cancer which Dr. Coley has been able to make with a toxin...