Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Addresses given as part of the Phillips Brooks House Lecture Course in Religion last year, have been gathered into one volume and will be issued next month by Scribner's, it was learned last night...
...Immortality Necessary? Can We Avoid It?" is the subject of the first lecture of the second part of this year's series, and will be delivered by Dr. Frederic Palmer '69, editor of the Harvard Theological Review, Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The following Sunday "Philosophy of Religion" will be the subject of a lecture by Professor James H. Woods '87, Chairman of the University Department of Philosophy, and on March 2, Professor James B. Pratt '99, Professor of Philosophy, Williams College, will discuss "Faith and Worship...
...your issue of February seventh, under the caption "The Student Friend ship Fund" appeared the following statements. "There is no very good reason why individual Harvard students should not contribute to Missionary work in spreading any kind of religion they might choose. But that blatant and benighted missionary work should be backed officially in Harvard University is deplorable...
...when he called God "an irate old party," "this touchy Jehovah"; snorted at His preference "for roast cutlet to that of boiled cabbage" (competitive sacrifices of Abel and Cain), "His whims, freaks and fancies," "His frenzied, megalomaniac boastings." This constitutes blasphemous, indecent and profane libel against the Christian religion and the Bible, said Crown Attorney (prosecutor) E. J. Murphy of Toronto, at last week's preliminary trial. He would not have been so provoked if Editor Sterry had kept to the "decencies of controversy," for "if the decency of controversy is observed, even the fundamentals of religion...
...beyond any doubt the more objectionable. The worth of missionary work is a much-disputed point on which it is fortunately not necessary to pass judgment here. There is no very good reason why individual Harvard students should not contribute to missionary work in spreading any kind of religion they might choose. But that blatant and benighted missionary work should be backed officially by Harvard University is deplorable. Much of the influence of Harvard University is dependent today upon a strict avoidance of religious creeds and prejudices. Its teachers and its students certainly represent no unanimity of attitude on religious...