Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this little book, Professor Mather gives a straight-forward account of a scientist's attempt to come to terms with the Administrator of the Universe. Few men have been as successful in pointing out the link between religion and science. During many years it has been his fortune to help undergraduates and others, in public address and by private counsel, to see that scientific truth can not conflict with religious truth. Quick to discern the assumptions of both science and religion, he suggests that both adhere to an experimental fact-finding method of considerable severity, with open mind where...
...Religion has nothing to do with my attack upon him or the attack of the dry forces. We condemn him for his own record, acts and utterances...
...been an increasingly potent advocate of Prohibition. In the long, well-considered, closely reasoned statement which he issued last week, he said: "More than 40 years ago I entered into the fight while a pastor in the South,* a section most conservative in the matter of mixing politics and religion. We were given the unqualified support of all good men, regardless of party, and no one ever intimated that we were doing anything more than our plain duty. . . . And now in this good year 1928, the major political parties have taken up the issue as a political one. The issue...
...Boston Ethical Society announces two public meetings to be held under the auspices of the American Ethical Union, in Repertory Hall, 264 Huntington Ave., Boston. This Sunday at 10.30 o'clock, Dr. David S. Muzzey '93. Professor of American History at Columbia, will speak on "Liberty and Authority in Religion" Dr. Muzzey has been called the foremost American historian. His books have been tabooed by nationalists in Chicago and elsewhere, but are admired by scholars. He will consider such questions as,-"Should Catholics or Fundamentalists, or any group, even indirectly control our schools or colleges?-and how far should church...
...Again human victims have been offered as a sacrifice to the greedy idol of a new religion, the religion of speed, which fascinates our youth to the extent often of replacing in their souls their ancient religion...