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...follow at the same hour and place on alternate evenings this week and next, has chosen as his general subject, "The Living Christ and Some Problems of Today." His subtopic for this evening is. "The Vitality of the Religious Sentiment." Succeeding talks will deal with; (2) The Availability of God; (3) Aims that End in Self and Endless Aims; (4) Christ's Goal for Humanity; (5) The Christianity of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; (6) The Place of Christ in the Modern World. All six lectures will be open to the public...
...reason for our overemphasis of such a philosophy in, let us say, America, is, I believe, an extreme and shocked reaction away from the opposite extreme of a purely materialistic interpretation of history which would rob us of God and a despotically socialist state which would deprive us of all freedom...
...known Bible--which attributes to divine command "so crassly materialistic" our exercise of the state's police power as the institution of the Sabbath and "so brazenly political" a measure as the repropriation of citizen farmers every half century. And as to the separation of powers between Caesar and God, I have the authority of some eminent residents of Divinity Hall for no longer taking that injunction literally...
...speak on any subject today without mentioning the war. I have three reasons for thinking we shall win: First, because the Allies deploy entirely while the German clings somewhat to mass formation; Second, because co-operation always wins against tooth-and-claw methods; and Third, because this is God's world, and He will not let it go to smash...
...told me of the lad. He lived in one of the villages of Northern France. This village was shelled by the Germans, and his mother was killed. His father had already died for France. This boy of ten years lived in this village for four or five days--God knows how he lived. He was found by a colonel of a regiment of Zouaves. The colonel took the lad and kept him with the regiment. He was what we should call a mascot for them. The lad lived with them for three months in the trenches. At the time...