Religion: The Church Knows?

Not always does the Church know its own. Many a Senator bellows biblically in the Bryan-country, who never says his prayers in secret. But pietist-for-politics-only would be a most inadequate description of William E. Sweet, onetime Governor of Colorado, onetime banker, now candidate for the U. S. Senate, backed by farmers, laborers. Said the Christian Century:

"While there are many nominal church members in the United States senate, they are mostly conservative and the few liberals in the senate are, almost without exception, estranged from the church. It would be a happy...

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