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...It is engaged particularly at this time in consolidating the groups that have been formed and stimulating them to act together in all good causes, both local and national...

...Through the confessional, they have built up an amazing service for the treatment of sick souls...

...EACH day makes it more evident that public opinion in New York is thoroughly aroused on the question of a clean stage...

...THE fact that fortunes fluctuated in the midst of fierce stock bartering, ought to have the effect of drawing public attention to at least some aspects of the complex railway situation...

...It depends entirely for the support of its work on the contributions of laymen...

...but his declaration that no presidential candidate could be elected who was not opposed to prohibition, was generally regarded as little short of disastrous...

...Easy old times, when a few hundred miles of ties and a rather lazy organization constituted a profitable traffic system, have passed...

...Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, gave a talk to about a hundred members of the Riverside Republican Club, in his own congressional district, he may have done much for candor in politics, but he contributed little to the enhancement of his popularity among the leaders of the party of which he was once the candidate for vice-president of the United States...

...Not a personality such as we are, of course, but a glorified divine and infinite heart, brain, and spirit, all-comprehending, all-powerful, never-failing...

...Simp-kins was telling his fellow-Georgians things like these: "The hoary legend, based on mechanical census reports of illiteracy, that Mexico is inhabited by a race kept ignorant and stupid by the Catholic Church, is almost as false as the same slander advanced against the people of Spain by self-righteous English writers...

...If it cannot be settled in any other way than by the passage in the legislature of a drastic censorship bill, managers and actors will have no one to blame but themselves...

...This is the statement of one who is not a great scientist...

...Now either this campaign to cleanse the stage is persecution or it is not...

...We have nothing to compare with it...

...that he is as dead as granite...

...THOMAS A. EDISON celebrated his eightieth birthday a few days ago by giving an interview to a number of newspaper reporters...

...Sockman, of the New York Methodists, approved by saying that Protestantism "had stopped making sins specific...

...It is simply a place to which one comes for the reception of a sacrament—for the forgiveness of sins by one who holds that power from God...

...The prompt challenge of Senator Borah to discuss with Dr...

...Christ Who died as we must do before we live again...

...The most important statement which issued from the Episcopal strongholds, was Reverend Samuel Shoemaker's declaration that "the confessional will bring back into the church the personal contact between congregation and preacher...

...Fosdick failed to provide their share of lore...

...A CONDITION such as that which prevailed on the New York Stock Exchange last week leaves the uninitiated spectator gasping, but is really as exciting as a great play...

...In the case of Great Britain, the problem is complicated, as always, by the sum-total of the Asiatic interests of the empire...

...The swarms of entities are immortal...

...The council now has representation in eighty-seven dioceses...

...Simpkins's entire article is so true that we should have been glad to publish it as a whole...

...One grants the efficacy of the treatment in this particular case...

...Not only has experience proved the utter spiritual inadequacy of this method, but the very memory of who the Apostles were, puts it to shame...

...And a really great man, a kindly man, is puzzled because no one understands...

...What 42S makes it vital and interesting is the light it throws upon the effort to consolidate the country's railway systems...

...The reservations were made for the protection of the United States, and for the permanent maintenance of the high standards of the Court...

...Traveling and hauling must be thought of now in continental terms...

...Straton affirmed that rather than follow the Fosdick lead, he would "go over to the Catholics, bag and baggage...

...Sky-high, therefore, went the value of these hitherto unpretentious collections of rails and locomotives...

...Even Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, the chief advocate of adhesion, accepted the decision with no expression of regret...

...IN MAKING a general appeal to Catholic laymen for continued and extended support of the National Council of Catholic Men, Walter T. Johnson, the president of the organization, reports really remarkable progress during the last year...

...One hopes, therefore, that Protestant divines who contemplate introducing the confessional, will also take cognizance of what the Catholic Sacrament of Penance really is...

...Let those who advocate entry into the League continue their fight, and let those who oppose such entrance continue their campaign of education against the proposal...

...We are, in fact, reminded of Hawthorne's Marble Faun, and of various matters discerned here and there in recent Anglo-Catholic literature...

...Intellectualism and efficiency have meant, and will mean, nothing in China...

...The decent public has been aroused by a condition, not by a theory of stage management, and is determined that it shall be changed...

...High-sounding terms and words have been used to escape a definite pronouncement...

...Senator Moses, the member of the Foreign Relations Committee, who led the fight against American adhesion, was moved to propose three cheers for John Bull when he heard the news...

...It fostered a university and many provincial colleges long before Harvard was founded...

...Which we probably shall, since President Coolidge, in his Kansas City address, announced that all the nations adhering to the Court protocol would accept the American reservations without any change, or he would never submit the matter to the Senate again...

...The well-informed say, however, that the manipulation of railroad stock during the past fortnight equals almost any of the spectacular coups which have recently been undertaken by men of might...

...and Senator Nye of North Dakota declared that once again Europe had saved the United States from embarrassment...

...Even so, there is room only for a few people, if anybody is to make money...

...IN SO far as this situation affects the missionaries now stationed in China, one must deeply regret the trend of events and hope for their safety...

...This endorsement differs in almost every particular from the violent charges of "secrecy" and "curiosity" which used to go the rounds whenever the disciples of John Knox (et al...

...Yet he himself does not understand how his ideas for his great inventions come to him...

...Butler means of "defining the issue and arranging for the campaign in which this matter may be presented to the voters of the party, who will select delegates to the presidential convention," completed their disgust...

...They permitted others to seek and obtain injunctions on the plea of protection against persecution...

...It has its spokesman, and his name is Wayne B. Wheeler...

...He declares that the liquor program suggested by the university president (who has offered no program other than a plan to ascertain the wishes of the voters of his party) "is soaked in avarice, lust, and rum...

...And the best part of it is its superiority to the various declarations which have been eagerly devoured by liberal New York...

...But it may be there are hundreds of thousands in the rank and file of the party who agree with the Senator and the educator that the issue of prohibition is here, and must be candidly met...

...Each of the big parties has straddled the question in its national platforms...

...TO THOSE who assume that enlightenment never occurs south of James River, we recommend the Enquirer-Sun, of Columbus, Georgia...

...but let us all be thankful that the red herring of participation in the World Court on terms which will never be considered for the League or by the League, no longer can be dragged across the main issue...

...No man has a deeper admiration for what may be termed the pragmatic aspects of Christianity, and no one seems to reflect more pertinently current uncertainties about absolute values...

...We may suppose that sooner or later there will take place a battle for the possession of Shanghai, between a native army and the troops of at least some of the foreign nations...

...Butler has "lined up with the bootleggers and denizens of the underworld in a fight to bring back booze...

...It was therefore natural that sooner or later he would come round to speak of the confessional, and also that his remarks should enkindle something like a controversy...

...They received quite a shock when they learned he was the proprietor of the bar at the Bridge Whist Club, and only members of Mr...

...THERE is, however, a third party which does not want to face the issue...

...He told these young men that the word, God, had no meaning to him, and gave his ideas about immortality in these words: "I have stated many times, but no one understands, that man is not the unit of life...

...preparation for the duties of a confessor is one of the most important parts of ecclesiastical training...

...Nor have the commentators on Dr...

...I think of God as being interested in mortals and mortal affairs...

...Otherwise they will lay themselves open to the broadside fired by the Reverend William Norman Guthrie, famous in the annals of Episcopal iconoclasm, in defending ritualistic dancing: "If the High Church can introduce Roman Catholic ritual, we, being a Broad Church, can introduce any other ritual we want...

...The Europeanization of the Mexican was accomplished through the spirit of brotherly love and educational zeal of the Catholic Church with a smaller proportional loss of life among the natives than that process was accomplished in any other American colony...

...The action of the managers whose productions have created criticism, is a challenge to those who are determined that a reproach shall be removed...

...NEVER, perhaps, has the action of foreign countries caused more satisfaction to American politicians than the refusal of Great Britain and two other nations to accept the participation of the United States in the World Court with special reservations...

...Moreover, the Catholic confessional is quite different from any such arrangement...

...If the other members of the Court do not desire us to go in on these terms, we will stay out...

...It is not necessary to go all the way with Senator Borah and declare that the World Court is a League Court, to sense some of these...

...Within twelve months, nine national organizations and 1,077 local groups have become affiliated with the council...

...George Caleb Moore reminded his audience that Spurgeon "had a so-called confessional in England," while the perennially fiery Dr...

...Fosdick's declaration that he has conducted for six years what he calls a confessional...

...That settles the matter," he said...

...Not only is the issue here, as Dr...

...A real new thing is pulled out of space, a fact which is inexplicable," he told the same reporters...

...The sole hope of imperialism now is that the Chinese will continue to demonstrate their inability to organize a stable government...

...It has demonstrated that it deserves the support of every layman who is proud of his Church and of his own country...

...The Church, from the time of Cortez, has been almost as zealous in the establishment of schools for the Indians as it has been in the establishment of churches...

...Either we were in the Court or we were out of it...

...that the unit consists of billions of highly organized entities which live in the cells...

...The American people, convinced by theory and experience that they do not wish to associate government with freight and passenger carrying, ought not to forget, meanwhile, that "better service" will depend to a great extent upon their cooperation with and comprehension of the important issues at stake...

...We recall a young Chinese convert who, before coming to the United States as a student, had completed and published a translation of The Imitation of Christ...

...nor will they surrender to a small minority of lawbreakers the majority right to make the nation's laws...

...Its author, Dr...

...They evinced a readiness to assist those who sought to purify the theatre, yet they permitted a play which was about to close as a dismal failure to capitalize the very conditions which they had declared they wished to correct, by announcement of a continued run at a larger theatre...

...But might it not be more than relatively hazardous to establish amateur psychopathic wards in the rectories of the nation...

...Leonor F. Loree's revival of ancient Gould and Harriman plans for another great trunk route, as reported to the Interstate Commerce Commission some years ago, depended upon the absorption of several small and comparatively unprofitable roads...

...The regulations which bind the priest are strict and all-embracing...

...but nevertheless it is a declaration which will not be followed by a plaint that no one understands it...

...POLITICIANS of all shades will be glad that a trouble-making issue has been removed, for the time being, at least, from the realm of practical politics...

...We do not crave for somebody else's martyrdom...

...mentioned the Sacrament of Penance...

...Christ was His earthly manifestation...

...I have an office," he confided, "where people who know they are spiritually sick and mentally disturbed can come with their problems...

...If it is, the managers and the Equity officials had a right to brand it so when Mayor Walker first announced that it was to be inaugurated...

...Quite obviously the best way to precipitate that antagonism between Orient and Occident which prophets have used as the recipe for the "great war of the future," is to keep on trying to maintain antiquated trade and social relationships which nobody in the East ever liked, and which somebody in the East is most certainly going to abolish one of these days...

...WHAT is particularly astonishing to the Catholic spectator in the whole procedure, is Dr...

...And logically speaking, there would really seem to be no limit...

...The nature of Christian teaching is such, however, that its protagonists must dedicate themselves to it alone, at no matter what hazards...

...Francis B. Simpkins, is a professor of Latin-American history in Emory University...

...To prevent the inroad of further competition into already hotly contested fields, representatives of three great trunk systems already established combined to purchase the Wheeling and Lake Erie, as well as the Western Maryland...

...He had wisdom enough to see, what veteran missionaries of many races learn from experience, that the superiority of Christian mysticism over the philosophy of the East is the greatest of apostolic weapons...

...We entrust them to a capable Interstate Commerce Commission, and then proceed to forget all about that commission, although, in sober truth, the problems it contemplates are exciting and momentous...

...HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK is the "fluid consciousness" of American Protestantism...

...The challenge has been accepted by the Mayor and the District Attorney, and it now looks as though the matter will be taken to the state Supreme Court...

...The habit of sending missionaries into a country under the protection of guns and in the company of trade drummers, is fundamentally reprehensible...

...It is true the people of the United States never made and never will make Uncle Sam a bartender...

...I believe that when a man dies this swarm deserts the body—goes out into space, but keeps on earth and enters another or last cycle of life...

...to offer to share in its advisory opinions on matters affecting other nations while demanding that no such opinion should be given by the tribunal on any matter in which the United States not only had, but would even claim an interest, was something very close to the absurdity which Senator Reed of Missouri denominated it...

...This is encouraging news to all who believe that the influence of various groups formed for religious, moral, and charitable purposes can be intensified if all work in harmony for the greater glory of God through His Church, and the wider benefit of the country they love...

...The very reservations them424 selves were anomalies...

...In all likelihood not even the British government is aware of the precise nature of the forces involved or of the purposes entertained by Chinese leaders...

...The Catholic Church in Mexico has been distinguished for its poets, philologists, historians, and philosophers...

...Are we really convinced that the average man, whether engaged in the ministry or not, is competent to act in such a venture...

...WHEN Dr...

...They carried the words of the man of eighty to another man, of ninety-three, and this is what Chauncey M. Depew had to say: "My idea of God is personal, rather than one of a force...

...Who really forgets that the prices paid for commodities depend to a large extent upon the skill with which railroad transportation is organized...

...The influence which the council can have on national life will be enlarged as its membership increases...

...It is now quite some time since Frank Norris told the story of a Chicago "corner" in The Pit, and nobody has rivaled that literary performance...

...Wheeler's organization were able to accept him in his new role with any complacency...

...At the very same time that various New York journals were feasting on Calles propaganda and imagining themselves most sincere and well-informed, Dr...

...Our Roman Catholic brethren, in keeping the confessional, have pretty nearly wiped us off the stage in one feature of human service," he declared...

...So far as I know, no effort will be made to modify the reservations adopted by the Senate because of the objections of other countries...

...Christ Who understood, lived, toiled, and suffered upon earth as men and women do...

...His contribution to the discussion in which two men of high standing are engaged for the purpose of general enlightenment, is an announcement that Dr...

...As a platform topic, it bristled with difficulties...

...Who these few people are to be, and how their conduct is to be regulated, become, as a consequence, matters of considerable importance...

...Recently this newspaper printed an article on Church and state in Mexico...

...men of good will in all denominations engaged in welfare work and social service will be more than ever anxious to enlist the cooperation and advice of a central body which embraces so many agencies for moral regeneration...

...A little pressure from half-a-dozen of the bigger managers, an order from Equity to the members of certain companies, would have been more effective than fifty plans and would have immediately created sympathy, established beyond question the bona fides of those representing theatrical interests, and made the contemplation of censorship an absurdity...

...On behalf of the Baptists, Dr...

...Nevertheless, the right Christian attitude toward the great people who number Lao-Tze and Confucius among their sages, is clearly revealed in the mandate of the Vatican regarding the development of a native clergy and the appointment of native bishops...

...They succeeded, so that for the present, at least, no new titanic merger is likely to be effected by an "outsider...

...All attempts to supplant it with science, or to make it attendant upon imperialistic development, will irretrievably fail...

...They did nothing of the kind...

...His announcement that President Coolidge would not seek a third term was embarrassing to those Republican leaders in his own state who have advocated the renomination of the present occupant of the White House...

...on the contrary, they not only agreed that a cleansing process was necessary, but appointed a committee to make plans for purging the profession of the panderers who disgraced it...

...Butler says, but there is a steadily growing recognition, by Democrats as well as by Republicans, that it must be squarely faced...

...In the long run, the missionary suffers more from "European protection" than from the "Chinese menace...

...Then he contributes this gem as a clincher: "The people of the United States will never make Uncle Sam a bartender...

...Even during the heyday of the Mexican inquisition, the Church never sanctioned laws which positively prohibited the subject Indian population from learning to read and write, such as the legislatures of our southern states actually passed against our subject Negro population less than a hundred years ago...

...Commerce, prestige, and history all combine to figure in a struggle the dimensions of which may surpass anything now projected by the spectator's imagination...