Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidence to the theory that the youth of the present day and more particularly the college youth is of godless generation and that universities are but hotbed of atheism might be found in the collection of Phillips Brooks House addresses which Scribners announces for publication under the title of "Religion and Modern Life". Although in no sense sectarian in their appeal these talks, given by men prominent in the University, have managed to draw audiences--perhaps not large but at least representative--which have listened respectfully, unconscious of any difference in ideals between themselves and the speakers...
...have any chance for the [Democratic] nomination, he cannot continue for long to remain silent on questions about which his Catholicism may bias his American statesmanship. . . . Governor Smith can surely make it plain that he is willing to answer any honest and pertinent question about the relationship between his religion and his politics. That is the only way to lay the ghost of the Catholic menace. . . . Not until it is as easy to discuss Catholicism as it is now to discuss Methodism will a certain portion of the American people recover from fears of the 'Roman menace...
...longs to the Church ; in U. S. theory it is a secular activity and belongs to the State.* According to the Roman Catholic Church (Pope Leo XIII): "It is not lawful for the State ... to disregard all religious duties or to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; the Supreme Court of the U. S. has stated that our "law is committed to the support of no dogma, the establishment of no sect." On marriage and divorce, U, S. law and Catholic law vary widely...
German-Jews outpeddled the Yankees, who turned storekeepers -Woolworths, Wanamakers. The canal, steamboat and railroad superseded wagoning. Religion grew organized, shutting out all but the most gorgeous spellbinders-Sundays and Sankeys, Moodies and McPhersons. Book peddlers had to learn the mass technique that flowered in Elbert Hubbard, Nelson Doubleday, E. Haldeman-Julius. All that remain of itinerant America are the scurrying hired droves who still "drum" everything from coal dust to white space; the glib "representatives" whose backslaps, hotel snoring and smoking-car anecdotes constitute an unmelodioua ground-buzz in the U. S. chorus...
Architecture is the most practical of arts as well as one of the most aesthetic. A building that serves for centuries to house the religion of unnumbered thousands is beautiful with a spirit that has no equal in any other form of human expression...