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...thousand police assembled in the Royal Albert Hall, London, to protest against a lower wage proposal. The meeting attracted a good deal of interest because the Labor Party has been trying to get the police force unionized. Sir James Remnant, M.P., said to them: "For God's sake don't be mixed up in politics...
...have resolved to give this little sketch further circulation, I do it to give a little pleasure to those who, burdened by the material misery of every day life in Germany, seek to save themselves by a glimpse into the broad "out there," which God's nature always' opens to the seeking mind. The Vossische Zeitung, Berlin Socialist journal, commenting upon this foreword, said that the public must appreciate the fact that the book was written by the Crown Princess before the War, and that she has not, like "most writers from the former higher regions, learned...
...outward and visible signs and deliberate subscription to creed or dogma are the ear-marks of "godliness", then all that inward reflection which hopes to place us in harmony with the god of things as they are, all that secret communion with our better selves, and all that conscious adherence to the spirit of great teachers, such as the Nazarene, must be considered devices of the "godless". Just when does a man, and collectively, a university become "godless...
...certainly reassuring to our brethren of the Middle West, if we had a third referendum to determine exactly how many men are atheists. As for the rank and file of Harvard men, so far as my observation of them has gone, I believe them to be fundamentally concerned about God. Our precious heritage of non-interference with personal matters has encouraged in Harvard men a quiet formulation of belief which needs no shouting from the house-top to reinforce it, nor public confession to fix it. HARRV REIFF...
...down on their knees each day in prayer for "Godless Harvard" I resent as a piece of unwarrantable impudence,--of sanctimonious smugness,--of orthodox whipper-snappery. To me their prayers sound strangely like the prayers of that Pharisee, who "went up into the temple to pray" and stood, saying "God, I thank the I am not as other men are." W. J. NICHOLS...