Two positions on which he repeatedly insisted took a firm hold first, that a church must be comprehensive of various views and tendencies, and that a national church especially should seek to represent all the elements of the life of the nation; secondly, that subscription to a creed can bind no one to all its details, but only to the sum and substance, or the spirit, of the symbol.
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The troupe disbanded in 1910 for financial reasons, at which point Hirschbein published what Jacob Glatshteyn ( " In tokh genumen " [ Sum and Substance ], 1976, p . 77 ) has called the four greatest plays in the Yiddish repertoire : " A farvorfn vinkl " ( A Forsaken Corner; 1912 ), " Di puste kretshme " ( The Empty [ Deserted ] Inn; 1913, written in America ), " Dem shmids tekhter " ( The Blacksmith s Daughters; 1918 ) and " Grine felder " ( Green Fields; 1916 ).
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You have there ( pointing to the baptistry ) substantial evidence that I am not ashamed of that ordinance of our Lord Jesus Christ; but if I am asked to say what is my creed, I think I must reply : " It is Jesus Christ . " My venerable predecessor, Dr . Gill, has left a body of divinity admirable and excellent in its way; but the body of divinity to which I would pin and bind myself for ever, God helping me, is not his system of divinity or any other human treatise, but Christ Jesus, who is the sum and substance of the gospel; who is in himself all theology, the incarnation of every precious truth, the all-glorious personal embodiment of the way, the truth, and the life.
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Writing in " The New York Times ", Vincent Canby said of the film that, like " Faces ", which was " rambling and funny and accurate, and which I admired, the new film demonstrates a concern for panicky, inarticulate squares that is so unpatronizing that it comes close to being reverential in a solemnly religious sense . " But Canby said the film was " unbearably long, " and said, " It's as if someone decided to photograph a tug-of-war and photographed only the rope between the contestants . " He said of the three characters that " when it's all over, they are tired, but not much wiser which is pretty much the sum and substance of " Husbands " ."
