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Inspired by the ten commandments of Tia Juana and the sermon on Monte Carlo the sons of the prophet of prosperity feed on the manna provided each chilly dawn at morning prayer. Faith in the ultimate victory of the pulpit in the spiritual contest against chance and fate is swelling the ranks of the believers. Traditional forms of worship--Isis, Dionysius, the Eleusinian mysteries, Mammon himself--are flicked out of consciousness by the true followers, the faithful who abide by the tenets of the spokesman of the divine decree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EZEKIEL TO PLACE | 4/24/1930 | See Source »

...anyone who has missed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn from his cradle side, and almost as regretful over a lost soul who has failed to try "Life on the Mississippi" or "A Tramp Abroad" for his later and more travelsome years. Perhaps these unfortunates may be redeemed from the pulpit of Sever 11. But it is more likely that Professor Murdock will concern himself with the later years of Mark Twain's life, for post mortem critics have discovered the many bitter pills under his palatable coating of gentle wit. For Clemens was the first American to discover that Uncle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/17/1930 | See Source »

...impossible to gain first hand knowledge as to drinking conditions from a professorial chair, or a pulpit, as it is to gain accurate information about Renaissance literature in a saloon. Thus the only people capable of answering the Dry argument referred to are those who actually drink, and if they presume to raise their voices in refutation, prohibitionists, with smug complacency, scourge them as drinkers, law-breakers, and menaces to society, and hence incapable to advancing any decent sentiments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOBER AS A JUDGE | 4/16/1930 | See Source »

Straton admirers interestedly follow the career of son Hillyer Hawthorne, 25, holiest issue of a holy man. He was acting pastor at his father's church until that pulpit was officially filled a few weeks ago by the Rev. Will H. Houghton from Atlanta. Then he considered two calls, one to the Park Avenue Baptist Church of Paterson, N. J., another to the First Baptist Church of Muncie, Ind. Last week he chose Muncie, where he will, due to the church's size, automatically acquire prominence among Indiana Baptists. Pastor emeritus of the Muncie First Baptist is soldierly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Straton to Muncie | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

Wailing from a Park Avenue Presbyterian pulpit, Dr. Meiklejohn, director of the experimental college of the University of Wisconsin, covers himself with his usual sackcloth and ashes and vainly questioning, beats the un answering dust. Utterly discouraged with the futility of all educational institutions, this fiery and pessimistic crusader bitterly cites the Chinese famine, the disarmament conference, and the sordid evils of industrialism and finally points an interrogatory finger at the student, idle and ineffectual, at the teacher, cynical and discouraged. Inert ideas, learning unrelated to life, dullness in the classroom are some of the charges brought against modern education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREPE-HANGER | 3/4/1930 | See Source »

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