Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graduate Schools Society of the Phillips Brooks House Association announces the fourth series of lectures on religion, to be given on Sunday afternoons at 4 o'clock in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House...
Speaking of their religion, Luther continued, "The Lapps fear the unknown, and their religion for the most part is only a nominal one." The greater part of the Lapps profess to the doctrines of the Lutheran Church...
...which wandering scholars exercised the leadership in learning. Few if any communities still exist in which the approach to learning has not been paved with biases of all sorts. The commonest of these biases seem to spring in modern times from the allegiance which is bound up with religion and nationality. But I believe that no communities exist where such biases count for less than in some of the great universities of our time. Whatever be your religion or your nationality, whether indeed you care to claim either, I hope that you will find here a welcome which will encourage...
Fortunately, these relics of an attitude that divorced worldly amusements from any contact with religion or religious men are now in the class of museum pieces. In the minds of modern men the jarring elements in religion and daily amusement have become reconciled into harmony. There has arisen a recognition of how each may supplement the other...
...such as Nicaragua and Mexico, are departing from fealty; missionaries are retiring in fear before savage Chinese warlords; Europeans look with greed on American wealth. Luxury is creeping in; laborers in linen collars sprawl in scented cinema palaces and forget about capitalism. In the Capitol, Caligula Heflin rails against religion, and tortures the Senators. In Colorado the Praetorian Guards are shooting workers. The barbarians have already seized Newburyport and Chicago. Dominated by Cults, races, fearers of liquid voodoos, the country writhes with the torture of electing a new emperor. The hour is at hand...