Word: sectarianism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manning's Command. A non-sectarian Protestant organization calling itself the Christian Unity League (president, Baltimore's Dr. Peter Ainslie, Disciple of Christ) planned a conference in Manhattan for last week. Dr. Karl Reiland, Liberal Episcopal preacher, a member of the league, invited the conference to meet at his church, St. George's. A feature of the three-day meeting was to be a communion service conducted by the Presbyterian Liberal Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. When newspapers announced the service, those who knew Bishop William Thomas Manning...
...Simultaneous with England's centenary of toleration towards Catholics (see p. 52) all Baltimore's fraternal organizations except the Ku Klux Klan, warned by bicentenary good-feeling, formed a permanent non-sectarian body which they promised to make worldwide...
...There this afternoon Mr. Woodworth will give the first of five recitals, playing several Bach compositions, including the choral prelude which was Bach's last week. It is hardly necessary to say that it is not as an chapel that Appleton exists for most Harvard men. Though offering non-sectarian services without compulsory attendance, and though well advertised to Freshmen in all their first notices, still Appleton Chapel is rarely used by the average undergraduate, who has gone there perhaps once from curiosity and once more to hear a special preacher. The statistics of week-day service attendance are well...
...Club has maintained "a service of Christian inspiration and fellowship in the business centre to promote the moral and religious welfare of the city." Principally this service has consisted of bringing noted divines of all faiths to speak to audiences made up of all faiths. It is as non-sectarian as a subway train. The club's season begins in October, ends in May. The infrequent churchgoer, the stranded salesman, the sedulously religious, the homebody, the student, the tycoon, the clerk, these people and their like attend...
...people must be decent to it); Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman (a newspaper columnist himself); Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise (not averse to newspaper publicity), and many a Catholic, Jewish, Protestant layman whose name was not announced. For the greater honor & glory of God, these various factors would work in non-sectarian unison. The Federal Council announced that Dr. Cadman's sermons would be made audible over a hebdomadal hookup of 40 radio stations...