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...eminent Teutons, notably Herr Ludwig and Herr Keyserling, who have been foreshadowing the future of this country in abstractions, seem obstinately determined to send it packing to its destruction. It appears that the United States is rich and materialistic as was the Roman Empire, and that post hoc, ergo propter hoc, is good and appropriate Latin. But on consideration, other parallels are evident. The tributary nations, such as Nicaragua and Mexico, are departing from fealty; missionaries are retiring in fear before savage Chinese warlords; Europeans look with greed on American wealth. Luxury is creeping in; laborers in linen collars sprawl...
...consciousness that he owes his throne to the fact that the First George was a sturdy Protestant. He, the Elector of Hanover, achieved his legal right of succession to the British Throne under the Act of Settlement (1701), in which the British Parliament had taken care to exclude all Roman Catholic claimants. To-day is barely two centuries later than that time-when a religious issue was paramount in settling the First George upon his throne (1714). Has England changed so greatly that the Fifth George can dare to remain aloof from the great and present issue between Pro-Catholic...
...Much loved American Roman Catholic prelate, onetime Archbishop of Baltimore. He died on March...
...most virulent, emphatic, & apposite comment on the encyclical, which reiterated Roman Catholic refusal to make unifying concessions (TIME, Jan. 23), was that contributed by Dr. Robert Norwood, Manhattan non-sectarian clergyman. Famed for the sweeping periods of his rhetoric, for the expansive, oratorical gestures with which he embellishes his sermons, he stated his opinion of the Pope's document at a meeting of the American Waldensian* Aid Society: "The encyclical recently compounded is a childish document springing from an obsolescent ecclesiasticism, a remote legacy of the imperial idea of ruling the Kingdom of Christ by the Imperialism of Caesar...
...Right Rev. William Thomas Manning, Bishop of New York, like many a bishop inclined to deal pleasantly with the Roman hierarchy, uttered his dictum on the encyclical and upon church unity at the annual meeting of the Church Women's League for Patriotic Service in the Manhattan home of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, social bigwig. Said Bishop Manning: "We are living in very interesting times. . . . Great movements are going on all about us. ... I want to say that I hope no one will feel in the least discouraged or doubtful as to the progress of the movement [for union...