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...evidently true: "R. F. Foster is not a theologian." The study of bis face indicates what Plato would call a "keen and narrow intelligence," which was also true of Mephistopheles. While the crass and unbaked author may not have the "slightest desire to go to heaven" nor fear of hell, there is no danger of his going to either place, but one thing is as certain as the law of gravitation, and that is, that he will "reap what he has sown" in an effort to poison the minds of untrained thinkers?especially the young. Again the publishers...
...turned the second lap when General Pershing took him on his staff and made him General Purchasing Agent of the A. E. F. After the War he did some first rate arousing when Congress be- gan to question him about purchases for the A. E. .F. and he ejaculated, "Hell 'nd Maria, the Army was sent out to win the War, not to spend days haggling over pennies." He did some more arousing as the first Director of the Budget, when in 1921 he set to work hacking down Federal appropriations. Then the vice-presidency was shoved...
...trial has already lasted 30 days, which means the court members have spent about $600 apiece to remain here, while we all have to keep up our establishments at home. But our chief objection to sitting here is thinking that our own commands may be meanwhile going to hell...
...religion that does not have a hell is a failure. Just as soon as one brand drops its hell, its adherents leave it for another that possess one. Our hell-that is, the hell of the medical profession- is cancer...
When one thinks of the myriad thousands of noble men and women who have died unbaptized, and reflects on the unkindly creed that would for that reason alone, consign them to an endless hell, the words of Laertes come forcibly to mind...