Word: non-christian
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...This proposal has come spontaneously from Harvard alumni. In itself it is evidence of the character of education at this oldest of all American universities. Evidently the spiritual has its place there and a true appreciation of the meaning of heroic sacrifice. Harvard raises no bars against non-Christian attendance; its chapel attaches to no particular creed; but it knows the value of religious influence encouraged by the university itself, on the campus and having some place in students daily life. It is regrettable that our state universities have been deprived of the opportunity Harvard seeks (to grasp more richly...
...Manila, a bill was proposed in the territorial legislature forbidding sending through the mails: "Photographs, engravings, lithographs, books or any kind of printed matter depicting any inhabitant of the Philippine Islands belonging to the so-called non-Christian tribes and to the tribes inhabiting the provinces of northern Luzon...
...know that the work undertaken for this purpose is to a certain extent neutralized by the photographs and prints of members of the non-Christian tribes, which the newspapers and reviews are publishing from time to time, either for commercial purposes or in order to defeat the pro-independence campaign we are conducting in the United States...
...privilege of mailing their own or friends' pictures and would completely prohibit mailing any scientific or ethnological work concerning them. The Governor General considers it so intolerant and such an unwarranted intrusion upon the fundamental rights and privileges of the community at large and of the so-called non-Christian people in particular that it is unworthy of serious consideration...
Bishop Brent put the argument on a far higher plane. Paganism is rising, the non-Christian East is threatening: "That we may be prepared, and that our children may be prepared, against a cataclysm which, if it ever comes, will overshadow what we went through in the World War, we must have unity of the Christion people. We cannot, in all loyalty to the heart and mind of Christ, reject this opportunity for unity. We will either have that unity or we will have the unity which shall come if we wait until we are driven...