Word: religion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exercising a police regulation over marriage, which it regards as a useful stabilizing influence, the secular arm of the law does little philosophizing as it goes about its business. Not so the ecclesiastical arm, whose stake is much greater. On marriage rests the prestige, the continuity of all world religions. Christianity, notably, is one religion whose priests and whose God set examples by standing in the role of parents to children. Great, therefore, is the chagrin of churchmen when they see the institution of marriage beset as it is in the U. S. Typically last week...
...boys in 14 settlement houses in the vicinity of Boston. It is the hope of Phillips Brooks House, according to Frank W. Vincent '36, chairman of the Social Service committee, that this number may be increased to 150 in the near future. The boys, who represent almost every race, religion, and nationality and who are drawn from the underprivileged classes of Boston, are already so numerous that paid workers are rapidly becoming unable to handle them; and the need for volunteers is acts...
Study groups on religion have been organized again this year under the direction of Willard L. Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School and Chairman of the Board of Preachers, and Julius S. Bixler, Bussed Professor of Theology...
These groups, a result of interest and suggestions on the part of students who attend morning chapel, are discussing "Personal Problems of Religion" for an hour or more every month...
...years ago in Menard, Tex., a six-foot bricklayer named Ernest Elmer Baker got the notion that his religion, Pentecostalism, would cure Russian Godlessness. He would, he told his father, who gave him $1.40 to start on the trip, "preach the Gospel to the Bolshevik! under the Kremlin wall." After tramping without visas over Germany and Poland into Russia, Ernest Elmer Baker ended up in a detention camp at Minsk, where he was identified last summer by the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow (TIME, July 1). Last week, with $100 raised by his family to repatriate...