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...utterly failed to abolish war, and Christianity must come to the rescue or civilization and the church will perish from the earth!'' Bishop Irving Peake Johnson of Colorado disagreed. Said he: "It is impossible for the church to alter political systems. . . . The church exists to produce righteous people and that is a Herculean task." Gloomily observed Chicago's Bishop George Craig Stewart, host to the Congress: "A moral collapse is engulfing mankind . . . unification of Christian forces alone will destroy the enemies of civilization." The Congress closed day after all the bishops had gone to the Northwestern-Ohio...
...rule has been made as a means of insurance against Boston public opinion or the sensationalism of that city's press, the self-righteous authorities responsible for it have sadly missed the boat. The most embarrassing of Harvard scandals in recent years, the Dunster House affair of last autumn and the subsequent tragedy at Winthrop, occurred when the rooms were teeming with numerous guests of both sexes...
Divine has organized a "Righteous Government Movement" with a political platform demanding that doctors guarantee cures, "Peace" be substituted for "Hello" as a telephone salutation, life insurance be abolished. Father Divine habitually ends his letters: "This leaves ME Well, Healthy, Joyful, Peaceful, Lively, Loving, Successful, Prosperous and Happy in Spirit, Body and Mind and in every organ, muscle, sinew, vein and bone and even in every atom, fiber and cell of MY bodily form...
...again be deposited in a man so grotesquely visionary that he takes no account of his decisive defeats and asks for permission to butt his head against the wall that raised such a welt on it last time. Henry P. Fletcher may sound a little too panicky and self-righteous in his protests over the use of soldier boys in the torchlight rally preceding the President's speech. But his objections to the warmed-over panacea are sound. Liberty Leaguer Shouse wins the same commendation by essentially the same stand. And Herbert Hoover continues to refurbish his badge of integrity...
...social security at best. But when funds are bounced around from project to project with the hit-and-miss efficiency of startled rabbits, and workers are fired in Manhattan and hired in Brooklyn at the same moment, those whose life blood depends on federal cash rise up in righteous anger at their treatment...