Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest respect for Bob Ingersoll," he continued, "and use to go and hear him. I admired him as a man whose strength of conviction would not permit him to remain in a church with whose policies he was not strictly in accord. But these two men remain in parishes which were built to uphold certain doctrines, and deliberately tear them down...
...peculiar position of actively opposing the divorce laws of his church at the same time he is trying to marry a woman who has two living husbands. Dr. Fosdick opposes one of the fundamental precepts of the Presbyterian church, the virgin birth of Christ. I don't respect, I can't respect men like these, who stay in the church at the same time they are tearing down the faith of the church...
...home or in the church or in travel. A lawyer can be deeply immoral, and yet be an eminent jurist; a surgeon can be a scoundrel, and yet be very successful with the lancet. But a minister is in everybody's eyes, and must therefore be pure in every respect. If he falls once, his career is gone. And this realization that success lies in your char- acter is one of the greatest joys of a minister's life...
There was a dinner at the National Republic Club, Manhattan. Nathan Krass, famed rabbi, made an impassioned appeal for unity among Catholics, Protestants and Jews to foster religious instruction. Said he: "The one great church in America that has done its duty (in this respect) is the Catholic Church." Whereupon Ernest Stires, famed P. E. rector of St. Thomas, said that criticism of the parochial school system of the Catholic Church by non-Catholics should be deferred until other churches had done as much for religious education...
...must have students who are men. They must believe in honesty, plain decency, must be chivalrous, must respect themselves and be industrious. Self-restraint is the first requirement of a student. We must wisely bring back some of the chivalry of the Middle Ages to be used at the present time. That would elevate our attitude toward women...