World War, 1914-1918.

"...I will be absent from Philadelphia...otherwise it would give me great pleasure to attend and make the opening address at the conference...This is the age of Democracy. Divine Rights Rulers have proven themselves able to build up efficient machines but they do not develope ethical and independent personalities...."

"...I have no intention of pulling away from the Democratic Club if the boys want me. At the same time I do not feel that I care to belong to the organization if the boys show a desire to restrict the freedom of my utterance in any way...."

"I am arranging, as you know, to have members of the Democratic Club deliver five of the noonday addresses on the Saturdays during Lent at St. Stephen's...."

"...As men grow older they realize that the future is quietly shaping itself, and that our control over events is very small...who could have foreseen these present developments, and the fearfull atrocities of which the Germans have been guilty...the great trouble in all our discussions of church unity is that it falls into the hands of people who are church politicians...."

"I accept your delination simply because I do not want you to feel uncomfortable...There are many people who want to see in a minister a fine animal, and undoubtedly physical vigor and vitality are a great aid to a speakewr, but you have something to say, and that is even more important than physical vigor...."

"You would do me a favor if you would write me briefly the points that you made in your paper on liberal evangelicalism...."

"I am sending back the manuscript. I read it with pleasure. My review of liberal evangelicalism will come out in The Chronicle in the fall...."