Word: ages
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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March 1--Les paysans et l'agriculture, depuis le Moyen Age jusqu' a nos jours...
...common-place now. The most momentous problems of our day had no existence for the statesmen of that earlier day. Govermental machinery almost indispensable today would have been well nigh useless then. In many respects conditions are entirely changed. If the constitution-makers of the past and widely-different age provided for the exigencies of this period, of whose many new things and new conditions they did not and could not know, happy chance or the direct agency of omniscience must have interposed...
Ever since the earlier history of the Hebrews, said Dr. Abbott, there has always been a belief in the world that a Golden Age would someday manifest itself. The people were reluctant to accept Christ's simple doctrine, mainly because they did not want to. The following years, however, saw the Kingdom of God placed by the impatient people first in the Roman Empire, then in the Church, and even in the monasteries. But corruption and selfishness arose even within the cloistered walls...
February 15--Les paysans et 1'agriculture, depuis le Moyen Age jusqu' a nos jours...
...religious life finds it natural to express itself in social service, and thus social service is really a part of that life, and a part which vitally concerns the present age. The greatest shame for a period would, be not that its faith was incomplete or unorthodox, but that it failed to recognize the basis for faith which it possessed; and social service is that basis for today. This tendency toward practical affairs opens for the ministry a wider range for self-sacrifice and duty. Our age has its problem plainly before it, and in its solution lies...