Yale University Law School - Yale Law Reporter Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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86 Tllli YAl.l'1 SlllNliI.li. shouted with the Methodists, chanted with the Epis- copalians, and now, in despair, I study the wisdom- religion of Buddha and Blavatsky. We regret to dismiss Cromer's creed after quoting only the con- cluding sentence: I believe the earth to be the proper location for Heaven -earth where all green- ness is not arsenical, like that of wall-paper. Non- seetarians are plentiful. These broad-minded men, who condemn dogmatism and denominationalism, stay away from church for fear of the charge of being narrow. Three men worship the God of Abraham, one of them says he adheres to the jewish religion Because it teaches Humanity and Truthg it is my religion by birth, and, since I could reason, by choice. It is the source from which all laws and religions have their origin. One man accepts in general the doctrine of evolution. Another sums his religion up in the Golden Rule. Six men attend Center Church, five Trinity, four St. Paul's, three each the United Church and the Church of the Redeemer. Many other churches in the city are mentioned by those who have been to church during the course. One man says he attended one once, but has forgotten its name. Nearly every imaginable reason, except devotion, is given for attending the different churches. The good choir and Dr. Munger's sermons are the chief attractions of Center Church, though one goes there because There are few contributions, and the contribution is a tax. Formosac pucllac are responsible for the incidental good that the many they lead to go to church derive from it.- One man goes to Trinity

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4 RELIGIOUS. Vv'e have not begun preparations for the next world on a very extensive scale. Only half of us are church members, and as we survey the two bodies of those within the pale of the church and those With- out it, we wonder how many of each will End St. Peter propitious and Heaven's gate open on that dreaded day, when we must depart to the right hand or to the left. Thirteen men are Episcopalians, seven Roman Catholics, seven Congregationalists, three Presbyterians and three Methodists, the rest are scattered from Hard-shell Baptists to Orthodox Jews. The preferences of those who have identihed them- selves with no particular denomination are divided as follows: Seven for the Congregational church, three for the Episcopal and two each for the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Universalist. The remainder of the class, with the exception of those who stand alone in their creeds, either have'no preference or have failed to state it. Very few confess that they are unable to accept the tenets of some form of religion, the fact being rather that they have formed no definite ideas on the subject. One man says he is a heathen, without any further comment on his spir- itual prospects, while another says he has a tendency towards Unitarianism and Agnosticismf' as if they amounted to the same thing. Bonsall says. I have slept with the Quakers, sung with the Presbyterians,

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TI'I1'I VALE SI-IINGLLI. H7 because the people go thereg another says he goes for the benelit of the churchg while another goes there because his relatives do. Habit, convenience and preference take three men to St. Paul's, the fourth going 'ffor a consideration. One man goes to Dwight Place Church to rag dough. X N5 e X X Wx NN N .. Q- 'L e'v '? 1?I'!'ffE1:'Xx 'U 1 X this , ' '-nt. 'f lilll ' :M l 9,-gf, Nx WX XR XX kit.,