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- GLC#
- GLC05508.014-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 8, 1928
- Author/Creator
- Abbot, Charles Greely, 1872-1973
- Title
- to "Our Heroes Class," First Methodist Church
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 26.6 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- The Roaring Twenties
Writing to a Sunday school class, Abbot, an Astrophysicist and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, recounts an anecdote from his childhood in which a cobbler told him "the Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Abbot explains that Heaven is within you when you follow a "philosophy of happy life." This philosophy is characterized by study of the classics of human culture--such as the Bible, literature, music, and great paintings.
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