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...joint recommendations: "We believe the basis of vital Christian unity is a common acceptance of Christianity as primarily a way of life [i. e., a moral code]. Assent to an official creed is not essential. Within the circle of fellowship created by loyalty to the common Master there may exist differences of theological opinion. With that primary loyalty affirmed, such differences need not separate; rather, indeed, if the mind of the Master controls, they may enrich the content of faith and experience...
...falls short of adequate treatment. Most of all, however, the lack of structure and background detracts from the effect. Of Westlake, during the twenty years of the heroine's life that the book covers (the second twenty), the reader learns little more than that it suffers the characters to exist within its confines. Of the progress of the story, there is never any forecast but the evident succession of the years, At scattered intervals during these years, the author drops in upon her creatures and describes, always behind the veil of colloquial speech, the effect of their crises upon their...
...ability to charm the female sex, and if you crowd them right close, they might reluctantly admit that they belong to the sheik class. As a rule they have more activity in their feet than in their heads. In fact, they are entirely too light at both ends. They exist in the South, North, East, and West, and not in the South alone...
...regard to No. 1 and No. 2, the U. S. would be delighted to make new treaties with China as soon as the U. S. could discover where China might be said to exist diplomatically. Until then, no treaties, for there is no China to treat with...
Next day, however, Mr. Kellogg said something original-something more than Sir Austen had been willing to say. He said the U. S. would consider a diplomatic China to exist if the chief contending factions would agree on a joint delegation to represent China. This was a great advance, but Mr. Kellogg did not put it in writing, and there is no immediate likelihood that the Chinese factions will agree...