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...page 1 TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, you refer to Methodism as "that sect." I am aware of the very general meaning of the word "sect," but you cannot be ignorant of the evil connotation of that term. A recent dictionary of recognized authority makes this distinction: "Sect is an opprobrious and denomination an honorable term for the same body...
...been arranged with the definite purpose of giving all who attend it a general knowledge of religion such as Government 1 gives in the field of government or Philosophy A in philosophy. The course is purely educational, and is open to all members of the University regardless of sect or creed. No exhortations of any sort will be given in the lectures...
...Goldman, entering the lists of ecclesiastical controversy with as much enthusiasm at Cambridge, as he did when we first met at Paris. But it seems to me now as then that if he would distinguish the case of High Protestant Episcopalianism from that of any other hard-shell Protestant sect. he must offer some more positive test of Christian truth than he does in his letter of October 8. So far as a mere lay-man can determine, it is no more reasonable to accept the Nicene Creed on his word, than it is to accept the Book of Genesis...
...irreligion of the Shia and Sunni Moslems. He would crush them, and off to Mecca he went with 72,000 fanatics before him. He would depose their upstart Husein, he would purge Islam of Moslem impurities. He, Faisal Ibn Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, Calif of the Saud Sect, would rule all Islam with the sword of purity as ordained by the Prophet. Was this to be the beginning of a holy war? No man could answer...
...Fosdick has spoken as a new apostle of truth. Others see in him a dangerous radical, advocate of a convenient, but self-destroying, morality. But whatever the individual judgment, one must see that, as this dynamic devotee of a new order breaks with the existing system of creed and sect, an event is taking place fraught with vital consequences in the coming moral and religious life of the nation...