(1878–1969), was one of the best-known ministers of his day. He pastored the First Presbyterian Church, New York City, and later the Park Avenue Baptist Church, New York City. He wrote numerous works, including: The Meaning of Prayer; Twelve Tests of Character; The Man From Nazareth; Martin Luther; The Manhood of the Master; On Being a Real Person; On Being Fit to Live; and his autobiography The Living of These Days.
In 1920, he wrote The Meaning of Service, in which he stated:
The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clear and cool, from the heights of Hermon and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. The Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, for the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.3279
Henry Emerson Fosdick commented:
We Americans say that the Constitution made the nation, well, the Constitution is a great document and we never would have been a nation without it, but it took more than that to make the nation!
Rather it was our forefathers and foremothers who made the Constitution and then made it work. The government they constructed did get great things out of them, but it was not the government primarily that put great things into them.
What put great things into them was their home life, their religion, their sense of personal responsibility to Almighty God, their devotion to education, their love of liberty, their personal character.
When the government pumped, it drew from profound depths in the spiritual lives of men and women where creative spiritual forces had been at work.3280
Race prejudice is as thorough a denial of the Christian God as atheism is, and it is a much more common form of apostasy.3281