Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Someone had to show faith. The first to do so was T. B. Macauley, president of the Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, who said that his company (large institutional stock-buyers) was not selling, was buying (TIME, Nov. 4). Others quickly followed his lead. From Washington Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, radioed to the nation that its business was sound, that only 4% of U. S. families were affected by the break. Others were Stuart Chase and Irving Fisher, famed economists, Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific, Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Luther...
Said the letter: "No theological issue is involved. No change is suggested in our confession of faith. . . . No one suggests that women shall be ministers or ruling elders whether they will...
...require more than Science." Biologist Haldane takes philosophy seriously. To him, philosophy is only another word for religion. But orthodox religion will not find much in common with such statements as this: "Belief of any kind in what is supernatural seems to me to imply a faltering in religious faith. . . . Men of science . . . will never accept any belief in supernatural interference. Belief in the self-consistency of the universe is for them equivalent, in ultimate analysis, to belief in the existence of God." Philosophy (religion) has a very practical importance "in bringing consistency into the relations between different kinds...
Last week, Monell Sayre went to a conference at the Church of the Heavenly Rest, one of Manhattan's newest, most expensive churches. The subject was not money but the "mystical element in the Christian faith." Pension Expert Sayre was the only lay speaker. He talked not on dollar-getting, but on "Mysticism to a Business Man." More and better preaching was what Mr. Sayre wanted. Parsons had propounded too much politics and social uplift, not enough mysticism, he said. What the workingman needed was an awareness of God. Said he: "If you try to talk Christianity to industrial...
...early work of great value is the first edition of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene." This has the dedication: "To the most Mightie and Magnificent Empresse Elizabeth, by the grace of God QUeene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Her most humble Servant: Ed Spenser." This copy is full of misprints and mistakes in the numbering of the pages; on page 332 blank spaces have been left for the insertion of Welsh words...