Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lectures for the first-half year are asked under the title "Present Day Trends in Religion." The first one is to be given on November 16 by Kirsopp Lake. Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and is entitled "The Religion and Educated Men." On Sunday, November 23. S. L. Joshi, Professor of Comparative Religion, Dartmouth College, will speak on "Gandhi as a Prophet...
...rest of the talks for the year are Religion and Social Change," to be given on November 30 by H. F. Ward, Professor of Christian Ethics. Union Theological Seminary, New York: "Soviets and Religion", which will be given by B. C. Hopper, Representative of the institute of Current World Affairs in Russia from 1926 to 1929, on December 7: and on December 14 Reverend F. N. Buchman will lecture on "The Oxford Group...
...great steelmaster, confronted with bad times, had made that statement 30 or even 15 years ago, his colleagues would have thought he had caught religion or become drunk. His employees would not have believed him. Yet when Charles Michael Schwab, board chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp., said those words last week at a Manhattan meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute, his auditors were not greatly startled. Though they knew "Charley" Schwab for the most unregenerate optimist in U. S. Industry, a notorious backslapper, hand shaker and well wisher, they also knew that what he said really did reflect...
...Abyssinia, are of every color from coal black through tawny brown to olive, include many non-Afric races. Centuries ago scornful Arabs nicknamed them Abyssinians ("mixed peoples"). Today members of the Royal House are strongly Semitized, claim descent from Hebrew King Solomon's Queen of Sheba, profess the religion of Coptic Christianity, acknowledge as their pope the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria...
...beautifully blue. Moldering, these majestic edifices stand in ancient Peking. When China was an empire, and that was but 19 years ago, the "Son of Heaven" alone was privileged to offer sacrifice to Heaven, Earth and the Great Ancestors. The bulk of the Chinese rabble scarcely had a religion. What they believed was that by tricks and spells one could ward off devils, and that it was dangerous not to respect one's omnipresent ancestors. Thus had Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism deteriorated. But Christianity had appeared to "revive" these lowly Chinese. Last week the most exalted man in China...