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...name of Christianity as a nostrum to keep America strong. In the name of God, this kind of thing represents a prostitution of the Christian faith and a crucifixion anew of the Christ who put human brotherhood in the most terrible and demanding of all relationships, that of common sonship under God. Let us have brotherhood, but not by all means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Prostitution of the Faith | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...that his life is allied to the life of God, and that the life of God is ready to express itself. Nothing could satisfy him except the life of God. This is the whole record of human life; from childish innocence through youthful dissatisfaction, disgust aids It consciousness to sonship with God. But there is another call, the call of the bride. The bride is humanity, that humanity where there is no bond or free, white or back, master or servant but one brotherhood of God. This humanity was realized in the of Jesus Christ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 11/2/1891 | See Source »

President Cleveland: Mr. President and gentlemen: I find myself today in a company to which I am unused; and when I see the Alumni of the oldest college in the land surrounding in their right of sonship the maternal board, the reflection that there nowhere exists for me an Alma Mater, gives rise to a feeling of regret, which the cordiality of your welcome and which your reassuring kindness can only temper. If the fact be recalled that but twelve out of twenty-one who occupied before me the chair which I now have the honor to fill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collation of Alumni Association. | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

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