Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obeyed we need not wonder if our young people adopt 'companionate marriage' or any other suggestion. Judge Lindsey's advocacy of 'unmarried unions' [TIME, Jan. 24, Feb. 28] is publicly commended by college professors, writers and other well-known people, among some ministers of religion...
...sincerely hope you will soon get through printing such atheistic fulminations as that of Stanley B. Altman [TIME, May 30] .... Personally I am a profound believer in God and religion; but if I were to lose my faith, I certainly would not want to disturb the faith of others. I agree with Robert Quillen who says that there is a mean streak in anyone who tries to destroy the faith of another...
...Synod was glad to hear Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, advocate that a band of 40 Protestant pastors go as evangelists among college and university students, "those overfed and underworked youths who should be steered into the path of religion and the church, and who should be saved from the beliefs preached by H. L. Mencken and his ghoulish crowd...
...Speer, a potent missionary, should make his first formal speech as new Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church before his Foreign Mission Board, which held its 30th annual conference in Manhattan. Said he: "All over the world today we see the breaking down of all other religions. And now it is going to be the Christian religion or no religion whatever. It is a clear issue between Christianity and agnosticism...
Christened Theodore, this indigent individual becomes Mr. Fortune's shadow, docile and domestic Friday to the clergyman's unstrenuous Crusoe. He idolizes Mr. Fortune in place of the grotesque wooden figure which had previously had that honor. But eventually the demands of Christian religion, slender as they were, grow irksome. Lueli dwindles and repines. He goes to the forest in off moments and bows down in the ancestral fashion to images...