Word: worship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...True religion is anqualified worship of the unqualifiedly good; faise religion is either worship of an instrumentality of life, or worship of self," Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of Applied Christianity, and the Union Theological Sexinary, New York City, told a congregation that packed Memorial Church yesterday morning...
...devotion. I have also been impressed with the services at Yale, and with the live interest in religion which I found at Princeton; but here there is a sincerity, a consecration of purpose,--an atmosphere which I can only describe as the manifestation of a true spirit of worship. Doubtless it is partly due to the beautiful building in which the services are held...
Promptly, U. S. Ambassador William Phillips, in a formal note to Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, protested against any discrimination against the 200 U. S. Jews now resident in Italy. Listing the liberties of commerce and worship enjoyed by Italians in the U. S., the note "believed" that "upon further consideration" the Italian Government would not apply these restrictions to U. S. subjects...
...hoods of the Doctorate of Philosophy. Last week in Manhattan, Edgar Wallace Knight, Ph.D.,* Kenan professor of education at the University of North Carolina, guest professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, generally recognized as one of the South's leading teachers of teachers, delivered a diatribe against "fetish worship" of Ph.D. degrees. The old story he told his audience (most of whom were graduate students on the road to a doctorate): that Ph.D. degrees are "mass-produced" to the number of 3,000 per year, that the fault is with colleges for requiring that all professors be Doctors...
...great God, whom I worship, grant to my country and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory...