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...week: "One is made very sad. ... It is too bad about the blood atonement being 'revolting' to young people. It is pretty small for mature people to put blame on the young people. It is the mature and aged hard-shelled worldlings who make the protest. . . . The noblest young people brought up in a Christian way do not revolt from the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The fact is they hear too little of it and when they know it, they glory in it as Paul did. If this Methodist movement is the fruitage of the liberalism...
...come for the first time under western rule, and for the first time in history the birth lands of religion and civilization lie open to unobstructed study and research. In the entire history of knowledge this is the greatest opportunity . . . for the study of man and his career. . . . The noblest task in the study of man is to recover the story of the human career, which culminated in the emergence of a religion of divine fatherhood and human brotherhood...
...Answer either (a) or (b) as your instructor directs. (a) Compare the point of view of Bacon with that of Abraham Adams on one of the following subjects: marriage, travel, friendship, (b) Complete Bacon's thought in each of the following sentences: "And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from....men." "Wives are young men's...for middle...
William ("Noblest Roman of them all") Muldoon, onetime world's champion wrestler, longtime crusader for clean boxing, originator of state boxing inspection, was given a testimonial dinner in Manhattan in honor of his approaching 85th birthday. To it went folk like Elihu Root, Walter Percy Chrysler, Oliver Harriman, Felix Warburg. Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust. Thomas brought back a silver-banded stick which Boxing Champion Heenan had given Muldoon 50 years ago. Muldoon lost the stick in 1880. Darraugh said he had received it in 1890 from the late Sportsman Thomas Gould...
...above race, creed, religion and politics. No acclaim, no glamour. Just devoting a life to life's noblest work, "helping the other fellow along...