Word: ters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coffin sees no necessity for "scrapping the churches now a work." Rather is the call for bet ter preparation of men to minister in them. "A man who is no 'mighty in the Scriptures' is likely to be feeble and of brief service in a position of Christian leader ship. . . The trouble-maker in the Church, whether he be reactionary or radical, is the man without perspective of the course of Christian history, so that he repeat: ancient blunders and is unenriched by past discoveries." Such a man must acquire "a theology which conserves all the Christian experience...
...accommodated, some students entering at one season and some at another; some going at one pace and some at another; the teachers also going and coming, taking their vacation as they take sabbaticals, not all at the same time. Under such a system there might be a considerable ter-migration of both students and teachers from one institution to another. Students would incidentally have freedam to become pupils of one master in one institution and of another in another, as was the practice in the Middle Ages. Now they are practically forbidden such migration by the attitude of collegiate communities...
...smiled at each other over the checker board. Though seven people were shot in Dorchester and a bank in Squantum was robbed, each decided that the spirit of education, being what it seemed, was ater all, worth the sacrifice. And each had engraved on his coat of arms "Felices Ter Et Amplius", which of course has much more to do with conjugal bliss than the spirit of learning but "policemen are policemen", as the Countess of Niblick once said in all truth and consequences...
...Beach at Long Branch One fine summer's day I was novel-reading to pass the time away. So in-ter-es-ted was I In the plot A gent came up beside...
...paraphernalia of ouija boards, trumpets, dark cabinets, materializations, automatic writings and spirit photographs-the laying on of hands, deep breathings, vegetarianism, fastings, formulae of monotonous sayings of the genre of Coue's, with its smug 'Every day in every way I am getting better and bet-ter'-these are those rivers and tributaries that feed the encroaching sea of modern occultism. It is the business of the church to take her stand upon the sayings of the Master to the effect that 'an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign'; that 'the kingdom...