Word: infidelism
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...prevented me from paying court to 'other eligible and marriageable ladies.' " Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Minister to the Netherlands: "A North Carolina divine, reading a sermon of mine preached in New York, offered me $1,000 if I ' or any other Biblical infidel' will produce one single fact proving the materialistic evolution of man out of a lower order of species." Isadora Duncan, dancer: "I denied a report that my husband, Serge Essenin, sympathizes with the French Royalists. Said I: ' Serge is a poet. And poets are too lofty in their thoughts and ideals...
Charles Spurgeon once said:--"Educate a man's head and you make him an infidel, educate his heart and you make him a fanatic, educate both together and you get the perfect man." Perhaps it is too much to say that this process will "get the perfect man," but it will get a better average man than now exists. Especially is this true in the problem of Americanization now before the country. There are infidels and fanatics in the land, and one is as undesirable and dangerous as the other. What is called Bolshevism is the product of too much...
...wanted to make a dirty little infidel out of my child," said Sunday, "I'd send him to one of these universities where they keep the Bible out of the curriculum. If the young men of Harvard had the least bit of encouragement, they'd be swept into the Kingdom like doves. There was once a great revival at Yale. Will it come at Harvard...
...their children for instruction. I shall tell the people of the West, when I go back, that the students' faith in God is torn to shreds here in your colleges. Such institutions, I say, should be blotted out. If I wanted to make sure of a boy becoming an infidel. I should send him to one of these colleges." This sweeping indictment includes all the colleges of New England, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, Tufts, Bowdoin and the others. Even Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley and the other girls' colleges are not specifically exempted from the charge, for the people...
...true? Can any one justly say that student feeling at Harvard is distinctly irreligious? Are we, simply because we are Harvard students, and that is for the most part the argument advanced, hardened followers of Mammon? The writer has frequently heard that glorious gray-haired fable of the Harvard infidel, but he never met the unbeliever but once. The young atheist in question laughed at Christianity and boasted that Buddhism even was a more perfect faith. An older companion proved by three questions that the would-be Buddhist knew nothing of either religion, and that his state of mind...