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...recognition that business is not first rate and will probably get worse before it gets better is not a moral or patriotic crime, but simply the acceptance of the apparent facts of the situation. Yet many leading business men seem to feel it necessary to appear optimistic, and to preach lengthy and rather shallow sermons on having faith in the country's future. This sort of thing does much more harm than good...
...Should we preach that we cannot eat our cake and have it too, no man may listen and no type repeats. But should we pretend to want tax reduction and at the same time advocate the bonus, the increase of pensions, the German relief appropriation, the rise of Government salaries and the $100,000,000 grant to the wheat farmer, the printed word takes up the refrain at once and the impossible seems possible because it is printed...
...College of Preachers" has been proposed, advocated, and will soon be established in connection with the "National Cathedral" at Washington, see of Bishop Freeman. It will train men of power to evangelize America. They will preach in baseball grounds, university stadia, wherever a crowd may be had. They will be inspired by the example of Peter the Hermit, Whitefeld, General Booth and other historic pulpitless preachers...
Questioned regarding his opinion of the kind of religion college men desire, Dr. Soares answered "They won't go to church if we preach only dogmatism to them, nor will they be interested if we tell them they must keep their scientific and their religious worlds separate. Religion does not needed to oppose science. We do not believe, as the Modernist does, that God has given us in the Bible all the truth we need to know. I can enjoy the sincere, and beautifully phrased religious sayings of Mica, but I don't believe Mica when he says the world...
When Dr. Straton was offered the opportunity to attend the Dempsey-Carpentier fight, and write his impression for a news agency which guaranteed not to cut his article, and to give it circulation in over 600 daily newspapers, he saw an opportunity to preach a sermon. His report of that encounter was widely read, and provoked national comment, for among the charges he brought against the exhibition were that it was founded on fraud and dishonesty, and that it was similar to the gladitorial fights which debauched the Romans and ruined Rome...