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...great question is, Dr. Hall said, how can we train ourselves to adjust our sympathies and affections to the religions of alien races? Lack of knowledge, he explained, is the direct cause of localization of thought. The indifference of minds, completely absorbed in the abnormal provincialism of their own opinions is as likely to do harm as good in its charity. Such an attitude is a contradiction to the Christ in whom we pretend to believe. And the sectarian religious hatred which may follow from this is the most ugly ghost in human history...
...Munro, instructor in Government, will give the third of a series of weekly talks on "Some Problems of a Modern City," in Phillips Brooks House Parlor, this evening at 7 o'clock. Dr. Munro will speak on "City Problems Connected with the Alien Influx," showing the difficulties caused by foreign immigration...
Among the topics discussed in this series will be: The economic and political causes of urban concentration; the rural exodus and its causes; immigration and the municipal problems arising from congestion; the sociology of the slum; the political exploitation of the alien immigrant; naturalization and municipal politics; the municipal boss, his methods and the sources of his power; municipal problems arising from the identification of state and civic political parties...
...Munro of the Government department, Monday evenings at 7, Brooks Parlor. Among the topics discussed will be: The economic and political causes of urban concentration; the rural exodus and its causes; immigration and the municipal problems arising from congestion; the sociology of the slum; the political exploitation of the alien immi- grant; naturalization and municipal politics; the municipal "boss," his methods and the sources of his power; municipal problems arising from the identification of state and civic political parties; etc., etc. These lectures will form a consistent whole, so that a regular attendance is desired...
...Christians were to a great extent in the same position as the socialists and anarchists of the present day, who, on account of their unorthodox inspirations are rightly looked upon as revolutionary factors. As the church grew in strength the religious and monastic interests of the time were so alien to the civil and political life, that unity was impossible...