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Liberal Culture in Action
Showerman, Grant | January 31, 1920 issue

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Even before the war the times were looked upon as the supreme age of action. The gospel of doing things was being preached unto the uttermost part of the earth. Religion had changed. The salvation of one's own soul from spiritual torment in the hereafter had been all but forgotten as a motive, and its place taken by the salvation of one's neighbor from material ills in the present. Christianity felt itself under the threat of banishment if it did not become sociological. The smartness of the institutional church gave the old-style adorational church by contrast an air of the medieval. Faith without works was more than ever dead; only works could stand alone.

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WAR; SALVATION; CHRISTIANITY; EXILE (Punishment); CHURCH work; FAITH
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