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...Manhattan, Unitarian Potter defeated Baptist Straton in the debate on the Virgin Birth. He has now won two out of three debates and has two to go. Both debaters referred to the biology of parthenogenesis. But the Baptist's best argument seemed to be that Presidents Wilson and Harding believed with him, to which the Unitarian countered that Presidents Taft and Eliot believed with...
...reply to William T. Howe's defense of Dr. Straton's address, lauding the supernatural and miraculous, and condemning the material and analytic point of view of Harvard students toward religion,--it might be well observed that any doctrine or religion which betrays muddled thinking of the type that asserts that America entered the World War purely because an omnipotent God put in our hearts a spirit of altruism to defend Europe from the clutches of a nation which had turned its heart against this same omniponent God,--it may be well observed that such religion scarcely merits serious consideration...
Whatever may have been their attitude toward the fallibility of the Bible and the adequacy of evolution to account for the origin of man, those present at Dr. Straton's recent address could hardly fail to see the significance of that meeting. There was evident an emotional intensity which showed that the students realized the importance of religious problems, but their questions proved their utter helplessness to deal with such problems. Isn't it rather illogical for a student, who in other subjects insists that those to whom he listens shall be of recognized authority, to settle his own attitude...
...Straton is pastor of one of the most flourishing of Baptist parishes in New York City. He had to combat dissension on all sides when he first took up his work there, because he preached the religion that reached directly at every member of the congregation. Secret meetings of prominent vestrymen were held in an effort to oust him, but he had become so firmly entrenched, and the congregation had increased in size so remarkably, that instead of Dr. Straton leaving, the wealthy vestrymen were forced...
Every Sunday Dr. Straton's church is filled to overflowing, a fitting testimonial to the man's personality and magnetism...