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...Moody and Sankey.&$#134; "Though I am sure that they are very good and sincere people, it is not the sort of religious performance which I like. The sensational style of excitement like revivals is not a religion which can last and it is not wholesome for the mind or heart." After Charles Dickens' Funeral. "He is a great loss, for he had a large and loving mind and the strongest sympathy with the working classes." Telephone (1878). "After dinner we went to the Council Room and saw the telephone. A Professor Bell explained the whole process, which...
...give imaginary conversations between Bible characters and God, created uncommon interest. With all his popularity went deep spirituality, which made him one of the greatest preachers of all time. On his return to the United States, money and gifts showered upon him, and upon his hymn writer, Ira D. Sankey, whose book netted millions . In the use of money Moody showed his famous " consecrated common sense." Himself a man of small education he founded Northfield Seminary for girls and the neighboring school for boys, Mt.Hermon. Both the boys' and the girls' schools give education at half its cost...
...almost entirely to domestic demand, and not to foreign purchasing. It comes on a money market of vast unused resources and thoroughly deflated condition. Furthermore, all our Babbitts have learned the value of conservatism by bitter experience in recent years, and it is doubtful whether the unreasoning Moody and Sankey attitude toward increased production which swept the country the year after the Armistice will soon be repeated. A safe and sane rather than a delirious prosperity should be the result. The financial editor of The New York Times very soundly compares prospective conditions in 1923 to the orderly periods...
...negotiations the first part of the statement may be branded as false. Then besides, let me refer you to the truth: A report has actually been submitted on the coal industry; the trouble is that Lloyd George has consistently refused to act on it. I refer to the Sankey Report which may be found in the Nation...
...this strike wages play a minor part, that nationalization is the fundamental question, and that Great Britain a opposed to it. I grant that nationalization is probably the moving idea behind this strike, but insist that intelligent Britain does not stand wholly opposed to it in any form. The Sankey Report says, paragraph nine: "Even upon the evidence already given the present system of ownership and working in the coal industry stands condemned, and some other system must be substituted for it, either nationalization of a method of unification by national purchase and, or, by joint control...