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Association Press, 1912
 

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Página 28 - ... mechanical; rather it means that we must be reasonable."92 In relation to corporate church life, MRFM leaders sought to correct what they perceived to be a genuine problem in churches. They felt that too many churches did not follow sound business practices. MRFM leaders declared, "In spite of the development in our age of a general efficiency in all matters of trade and commerce, the church has in no wise kept pace. Her efficiency and resourcefulness are in unfavorable comparison with the achievements...
Página 94 - Very good: And now what, according to you, is to be the salvation of our government and of our laws, and how is it to be effected? ATHENIAN: Were we not saying that there must be in our city a council which was to be of this...
Página 85 - The daily newspaper has been denned as "a map of busy life, its fluctuations and its vast concerns." This is sufficiently comprehensive, and will do to abide by now as when it was first formulated. There will be little debate over the statement that the daily newspaper has somewhat abdicated its function, possibly in larger measure than it has itself realized. Religion is represented by the organized church—and the abdication here has been at least equally marked.
Página 101 - Not to Allay But To Help Satisfy Social Unrest Is One Aim of Present Day Christianity. Think Things Through and You Will Go To Church"; or, "Sport Is Pleasure—But It Is Not Pleasure Enough For a WellRounded Man — 'Man Has a Body, But He Is a living Spirit,' " compelled interest ; they had never seen it on this wise before.
Página 94 - Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and of citizens.
Página 94 - Constitution,' constitutional, republican, democratic, sans-culottic, could bind that raging chasm together ? Were they not all burnt up, like Paper as they were, in its molten eddies ; and still the fire-sea raged fiercer than before...
Página 102 - Christianity is for all men and for all of a man. Go to church next Sunday and find out.
Página 7 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Página 65 - The church has under-valued herself. She has failed to rise to an adequate conception of her dominant position. She has failed, largely by her own attitude toward herself, to impress the world with the tremendous importance of her message and her mission.
Página 98 - something doing," the kingdom of heaven busy upon this earth and in the newspaper's own city. The masculine note in it all, the bigness of the Movement's sweep, its emphasis upon social problems and its frank recognition of news values, all appealed to the editorial instinct, and unconventional, timely and with a definite local touch, the Movement won its way into first-page displays everywhere.