Word: worship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course we have heard more about the British sub-commanders, but until this latest drive upon Cambrai, mention of General Byng had been quite casual. He is now on the way to hero worship and we shall presently be deluged with details as to what he eats, how he behaved in school and who his favorite authors...
...victim was seen to pray as the fires rolled over his flesh. To what God did he pray? The South is reputed religious, far more so than this Unitarian and materialistic North. Did the white man's God hear those agonizing prayers? Or does the negro worship an impotent Diety...
...evolutionary doctrine and come out with new methods of appeal; it has emerged from its struggle with science modified but strengthened. Religion now finds itself in closer contact with life, and there is a deeper recognition of its meaning for movements of social uplift. Doctrines differ and forms of worship still stand apart, but the emphasis is more than ever on the things which unite, less than ever on the things which divide. Not yet have the protagonists of unity reached their goal. But the churches are more joined in co-operation and mutual helpfulness than was ever possible...
...fact that Shakspere himself ridicules other characters in the play for holding this same belief. In their swift, subtle phrases, modified by infinite jest and exquisite fancy, Hamlet and Touchstone can be identified as one and the same creation; and their further loyalty to love, and love for worship, seal their close relationship...
...their thrones" shows the white flash of genius. Mr. Fay's "By Olympus," not-withstanding the "hymadryads" (this issue is defaced by misprints on almost every page), is another little master-piece of delicate comedy. A Bacchus that smiles in his sleeve is surely a god we may all worship. A pleasing prose-poem and Mr. Wright's severe indictment of Chesterton are the most worth-reading of the other prose-contributions...