Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conference this year will as usual be featured by addresses by men, authorities in the fields of religion, labor, education, and international politics Among them are Professor K. F. Mather, H. P. Van Dusen, Henry Sloane Coffin and H. H. Tweedy. Forums will also be held on ten subjects which the Council believes to be of paramount importance today...
Higher education, like lower religion, was once regarded as a field for commercial exploitation. Indeed, "diploma mills" still flourish, teaching all things from ethics to how-to-be-a-Prohibition-agent...
...University of Iowa has just organized a school of religion in which earnest men will strive to teach religion as a dynamic force in life, rather than as a matter of creed, tenets, rites, thaumaturgy or priestcraft. At this aim, endorsed by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, the Presbyterian, "an official organ of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America," last week scoffed...
There are excellent chapters on George Eliot's religion, showing how, though she was brought up an extreme evangelical, under the vaguer beliefs of her later life there was always a deeply religious nature. She loved the past, and the old life there was always a deeply religious nature. She loved the past, and the old life of England, and yet she was one of the first, as she remains one of the greatest, of realists; for she saw through the green and sunny surface of country life to the wretchedness beneath. "The Mill on the Floss" and "Adam Bede...
...perverse fancy, a crotchet", and Miss Warner employs the word as a titular alias for the sprite who deprived the genteel and clerical Mr. Fortune, prepared to devote his declining years to ministering to the spiritual needs of the inhabitants of an idyllic South Sea Isle, of his religion, his sense of duty, and his peace of mind. Fanua, a tropic island, was apparently a fertile field for an efficient missionary, but in the end Mr. Fortune decided that there are gods and gods, and the importance they play in this world depends as much on their worshippers...