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...hugeness, pathetic. The faith of the elders that saw its erection is staunch and living, and it is evident that its intense beauty will cause a Sunday fervor among the undergraduates. But in the student mind of the day, that fervor, born of music, mysticism and impressiveness, is essentially pagan and orgiastic. It is not, of course, the conscious eating of a pot of honey of the grave. But still, if the free intellectual inquiry of the past two centuries has received at last a dusty answer, its late linking with Romanistic and esthetic mysticism should shed no very tasteful...
...Bishop of Rome cannot in fact fail to deplore the fact that here in the Holy City of Catholicism, after 20 centuries of Christianity the sensitiveness and attention to delicate care due to young women and girls should be shown to have fallen lower than Pagan Rome...
Francis John McConnell, Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh, stated a postulate that would surprise and shock all sturdy U. S. Fundamentalists: "I come from a Nation which is in some respects pagan. We subscribe to the doctrine of militarism and to the god of materialism, and we have given ourselves over to the pursuit of wealth. We should not be complacent regarding paganism. . . . Let this meeting become a challenge...
...talk about all the good things we have to offer backward peoples, when we cannot point out a single country in Europe where there is a real Christian civilization operating throughout its society. . . . We are trying the impossible in offering to save the individual, yet leaving the social structure pagan. ... It is not possible for men and women to accept one standard of social ethics in private life and another in economic life...
...good deal of what he says is patently untrue, or at least misleading, it must be admitted that his theses are never anything but plausible. The best traditions of English letters seem to present to him an endless and enchanting vista of abstract crockery to be broken with loud pagan snorts and bellows, and while he not infrequently builds an elaborate argument of disproof where a simple "What of it?" would suffice, there is always that much more amusement for the occupants of the ringside seats...