Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finally the Jew's religion is simplified by being founded on the Old Testament to the exclusion of the New. The Jew bargains and haggles, remembering that the God of the Old Testament set the example of higgling with Abraham. The commercial efficiency of the European is lowered by the fact that his New Testament religion idealizes Christ, Who countenanced the very practical art of higgling so little that He drove the money-changers out of the Temple...
This morning, Dr. Hu Shih, a Chinese scholar and father of the modern Chinese "renaissance" movement, will give a lecture at 12 o'clock today in Emerson J on the rise of Confucianism as a state religion, and the Taoist reaction...
Among Baptist ministers John Roach Straton and Harry Emerson Fosdick are antithetical-in training, personality and ways of thought. Dr. Straton's religion is absolute-his way or damnation; Dr. Fosdick's religion is expanding -it includes good things of the past as of the present. As professor of practical theology at Union Theological Seminary and pastor of Park Avenue Baptist ("Rockefeller's") Church, Dr. Fosdick has great influence on influential...
Some have pointed to the tall, spare, angular figure of President Few as the best guarantee against "monkey-bills" in the South. Of ancient and distinguished lineage, he rose to fame as a scholar and teacher of English literature. "Religion and education; not two but one and inseparable" is the motto of Duke University. Last autumn he added a school of religion to his university, but it is no secret that this scholar-gentleman looks forward most eagerly to establishing a great medical school. Meanwhile five sons attach him to youth...
...time the pure zeal of a reformer burned in Mr. Macfadden. He was but seven years away from his native Missouri. Like Theodore Roosevelt, he had built himself up from a weazened shrimp to a powerful athlete. He was as militant as any Irishman with an undigested dose of religion. His faith was physique; he was out to make the world safe for healthy bodies. This zeal has never wholly died. The numerous Macfadden daughters are buxom as can be and have never been ashamed to pose as their father's prize exhibits. Nevertheless, it was inevitable that this apostle...