the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Harry Emerson Fosdick : The Meaning of Prayer

'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Harry Emerson Fosdick : The Manhood of the Master

'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: Fellowship Hymn Book and Weymouth; Rauschenbusch Christianity and the Social Crisis; The Meaning of Prayer, The Manhood of the Master, and Prayers for Students (S.C.M.); Otto's and Hugo's German grammars; Luther's Testament, and Goethe's Faust!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool      Print: Book

Harry Emerson Fosdick : The Second Mile

'Enjoyed "The second mile" by Fosdick. Actually in bed by 10.30 pm!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook      Print: Book

Harry Emerson Fosdick : Manhood of the Master

'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
Ordeal by Battle. F. S. Oliver. Macmillan.
Ecclesiastes. Devine. Macmillan
The Jesus of History. Glover.
In Christ. A. J. Gordon. Hodder & Stoughton.
The Manhood of the Master. Fosdick S.C.M.
The Meaning of Prayer. Fosdick. S.C.M.
The Creed of a Churchman. Various Longmans
The Problem of Pain. MacFadyen.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook      Print: Book

Harry Emerson Fosdick : Meaning of Prayer

'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
Ordeal by Battle. F. S. Oliver. Macmillan.
Ecclesiastes. Devine. Macmillan
The Jesus of History. Glover.
In Christ. A. J. Gordon. Hodder & Stoughton.
The Manhood of the Master. Fosdick S.C.M.
The Meaning of Prayer. Fosdick. S.C.M.
The Creed of a Churchman. Various Longmans
The Problem of Pain. MacFadyen.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook      Print: Book

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