Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Instead of believing everything their ministers and Sunday School teachers tell them, as they did when children, they now believe everything their Biology professors tell them." So declared Dean Sperry of the Divinity School, with reference to college undergraduates, at a religious conference meeting in Princeton Sunday...
...little surprising from as liberal a theologian as Dean Sperry, who elsewhere decries compulsory chapel and the "religious hangover" found in some ecclesiastical colleges. It would be folly to deny the absence among college undergraduates of any very real religious certitude, of the variety dealt out by pious Sunday School teachers: it is, however, not to be assumed at once that students flock unthinking after the frequently flickering electric torch of Science. Theories are born, have their being, and die in rapid tempo: the ideas set down as dogmas in a scientific textbook "brought up to the minute" a decade...
...picked up an Indian battle axe one day and, like many another U. S. urchin, stared with a long wonder at this emblem of forgotten hatred and forgotten fear. After he became a parson, he could not lose his intense feeling for the past; when he told his Sunday school about Joshua, he could hear trumpets sounding and the roar of falling walls. His parish was in Norristown, Pa.; on winter nights he could imagine that the cold wind crying at his window was still blowing snowdrifts over an army's fires. In 1903 he outlined the Washington Memorial...
...worn for Christmas. They spoke to the tramp to wake him up, then arrested him for playing the church organ. He said that his name was William Nolte, that his age was 23, that he had been living in the church for a month, that he had once attended Sunday School there...
...Sunday Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, dictated a letter to the leading Ohio booster, giving him permission to toss a nominatory monkey-wrench into the works. Since Ohio's plans, and particularly those of its favorite son. Senator Frank B. Willis, had not included the Secretary of Commerce, the official entrance of the interloper made a good deal of hubbub on the second floor of Masonic Hall. Hoover has flouted the old Ohio tradition of unanimous nomination of the favorite son. No wonder Secretary Willis accuses the Secretary of "violating the decencies of politics." And by mail...