Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second series of lectures to be given on Sunday afternoons at 4 o'clock in Peabody Hall. Phillips Brooks House. These lectures are open to all members of the University. The first half of the course was designated to help men to better understand the part of organized religion. The second half of the course, which consists of the following lectures, will touch more intimately on the religious problems and perplexities faced by the individual...
February 20--"Philosophy of Religion." Professor J. H. Woods, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University...
Several Wesleyan missionaries who attempted to eject the student propagandists were themselves ejected. Thereupon the chief tenets of the Christian religion were held up to derision and ridicule. Frightened, the Wesleyan female Chinese converts stopped their ears and cowered in their seats. Later the students rushed through a dormitory distributing anti-religious literature to a group of converts, who were afterward discovered to be blindmen...
Just as they once tried to balance church and state, prelates now work to reconcile religion and business. Some organize their vestry into a board of directors, incorporate their church properties, advertise sermons in penny slogans on glass billboards. Others denounce Mammon, at the same time reminding their parishioners that it is more blessed to give than to receive. In Fort Worth the Rev. H. L. Wilkinson, pastor of the Cranberry Avenue Baptist Church, found still another way. He opened a grocery store. To meet the debt incurred by building a new church he turns his salary back into...
...other articles used in making home-brew . . . do not handle them. . . . I'd like to see sharper teeth put into the [prohibition] law . . . only $1,100 is still owed on the $4,000 building . . . membership of my church has grown in three years from 18 to 125 . . . religion and business...