War and Religion: A Sociological StudyUniversity of Pennsylvania, 1918 - 100 sider |
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Side 67 - ... editors and publishers everywhere will give as prominent publication and as wide circulation as possible to this appeal. I venture to suggest, also, to all advertising agencies that they would perhaps render a very substantial and timely service to the country if they would give it widespread repetition. And I hope that clergymen will not think the theme of it an unworthy or inappropriate subject of comment and homily from their pulpits. The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak,...
Side 23 - We know as a parallel that in the history of many civilized races a period of great artistic and industrial development may be followed by a period of stagnation and decline without any apparent environmental causes.
Side 65 - Though the warrior's bread be scanty, do Thou work daily death and tenfold woe unto the enemy. Forgive in merciful long-suffering each bullet and each blow which misses its mark ! Lead us not into the temptation of letting our wrath be too tame in carrying out Thy divine judgment! Deliver us and our Ally from the infernal Enemy and his servants on earth. Thine is the kingdom, the German land; may we, by aid of Thy steelclad hand, achieve the power and the glory.
Side 67 - Fellow-Countrymen: The entrance of our own beloved country into the grim and terrible war for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world creates so many problems of national life and action which call for immediate consideration and settlement that I hope you will permit me to address to you a few words oí earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them.
Side 56 - God bless the Methodist Church ; bless all the churches ; and blessed be God, who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.
Side 32 - This great northern line was confronted on the south by a similar line of Semitic peoples, extending from Babylonia on the east, through Phoenicia and the Hebrews westward to Carthage and similar Semitic settlements of Phoenicia in the western Mediterranean (§ 135, and map, p.
Side 65 - Ye say it is the good cause which halloweth even war? I say unto you: It is the good war which halloweth every cause.
Side 65 - Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars — and the short peace more than the long.
Side 15 - If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
Side 79 - The law of nations, founded upon justice, equity, convenience, and the reason of the thing, and confirmed by long usage...