Word: fosdick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urging of Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc. (see p. 7), last Sunday was made Finland Day in many a U. S. State and city. The nation's most famed Protestant preacher, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, composed a prayer for the occasion...
...moral sense as a nation is dulled. . . . Our present lack of national spirit is due also in part to a vast amount of well-meant but mistaken and misleading and really unchristian teaching about peace." Soon Dr. Manning, Bishop Lawrence, Episcopal Layman George Wharton Pepper, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and others signed a trumpeting manifesto: "Sad is our lot if we have forgotten how to die for a holy cause...
That was in 1916 and 1917, before the U. S. entered World War I. Since then, some of the warlike preachers have died; some-notably Dr. Fosdick-have sworn off for life. Dr. Manning, now Bishop of New York, has kept his guns oiled, said recently: "A Christian cannot be neutral between right and wrong. . . . Right is more important than peace. . . . What our ultimate duty as a nation may be if the conflict is prolonged...
...vast majority of U. S. churchmen were, for the time being at least keeping God out of it. The president of the Federal Council of Churches plumped for strict neutrality. So did Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Father Coughlin, the National Baptist Convention (Negro). The National Council of Methodist Youth vowed its refusal to participate in "any war in which the U. S. may engage...
Married. Dr. Elinor Whitney Fosdick, 27, physician-daughter of Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of Manhattan's Riverside Church; and Dr. Sherman Roger Downs, 28, medical researcher; on Mouse Island...