Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsaved, unwashed world is dying," it is not for lack of preachers to minister to it. What shall they say ? Most, today, talk of Depression. Some endeavor to be cheery, smart, topical. Others are modern, "humanistic." Of the group who preach the real oldtime religion, none is more zealous than a towering, white-haired patriarch of the Northwest, Dr. Mark Allison Matthews. Pastor of the world's largest Presbyterian church (Seattle's First, with a congregation of 7,886), he spoke forthrightly to his brothers last week. In The Presbyterian he wrote...
...Martin '32, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, K. F. Mather, Professor of Geology, G. W. Allport, Assistant professor of Psychology, E. S. Amazeen '31, graduate head of Phillips Brooks House, and The Reverend T. L. Harris, University Adviser in religion will represent Harvard at a New England student-faculty conference which will meet at East Northfield this weekend to further the responsibility of the colleges to the outside world...
Under the Auspices of the Graduate Schools Committee of the Phillips Brooks House the third of a series of lectures on religion will be given tomorrow at 4 o'clock in Peabody Hall on the third floor of the Phillips Brooks House. The speaker will be the Reverend Mr. Stanley Ross Fisher, who will discuss "What is Happening in China...
...called it "a saintly picnic, a slice of sweetness, a glorification of the humble and the familiar." Fortuitous though his creation was, Seth Parker has gained a radio following greater even than that of august Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman. Says the preface to his hymnal: "Seth Parker believes that religion is tangible; that it is a kind word, a thoughtful deed and is not something apart from every day life. He has probably done more to make religion a part of the American home than has any other...
...there are other neglected functions of the mind which are also roots of religion. The religious attitude is defined as the striving of an individual to relate himself with an all embracing totality. Defined in this way, a naturalistic and scientific approach to religion is not unfriendly to religious faith...