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Show PROPHESIES NEW RELIGION. Dr. Eliot Says It Will Not Be Bound by Dogma or Creed. Cambridge, Mass. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, in an address before the Harvard summer school of theology, on Thursday, prophesied the advent of a new religion. re-ligion. "it will not be bound by dogma or creed," he said. "Its workings will be simple, but its field of action limitless. lim-itless. Its discipline will be' the training In the development of co-operative good will. It will attack all forms of evil. There will be no supernatural su-pernatural elements; it will place no reliance on anything but the laws of nature. Prevention will be the watchword watch-word and a skilled surgeon one of its members. The new religion will not teach that character can be changed quickly. It will not deal with sorrow and death, but with joy and life." |