Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Particular History. After several years of talk, conferences, pamphlets, prayers, most of the Evangelical Churches ratified the idea of a Federal Council and voted to become constituent members. In 1908, the Council began, consisting of about 400 members from the 30 churches. It organized itself into committees and committees within...
"I cannot see why Protestants in America treat the Catholic question as if a continuous reign of terror were a progress. Here is a Roman Cardinal who speaks with commisocating insolence about Harvard University and no one answers him. It happens that Harvard has adopted what may become a policy...
"The historic learning of the Cardinal may be at fault; but it is not to this point that I would call attention, but rather to the customary submissive silence in which such statements by Roman prelates are received in America. It is thought unkind and subsersive for any Protestant to...
"Liberalism presupposes free discussion and under present conditions of Protestant speechlessness the presence of a Roman Catholic on the Governing Board of a non-Catholic college or school makes it impossible for the board to discuss this great issue frankly."
A good deal of Nell Gwynn's posthumous reputation is due to her identification with the Protestant cause and the political drift which later crystallized into the Whig Party.