Religion: To 50,000

Most influential preacher in the U. S. is a fuzzy-haired, magnetic man who was ordained a Baptist, for the past ten years has been a sectless theological liberal. Last February Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick preached in his Riverside Church in Manhattan a sermon entitled: "Dare We Break the Vicious Circle of Fighting Evil With Evil!" The sermon was later read by Dr. Fosdick's good friend and chief parishioner, John D. Rockefeller Jr., builder of the soaring, carillonned, $4,000,000 church, which he provided as Dr. Fosdick's spiritual home when the evangelical U. S. churches...

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