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...into every social organism, such especially as the family and the press, not trying to dominate but to inspire them. He should look upon all who are working for the good of the community as being, like himself, ministers of Christ. He should be the friend of all, and bind together in Christian service, first, his own people, and then, as far as possible, all other Christian bodies, and all who have influence amongst their fellow men, in unselfish action, which may reach wider and wider circles in the nation and the world...
...special object of the Lord's Supper was social religion, to bind Christ's followers together. It was grafted on the Passover and, like it, was a family meal. All the names used for it, the Supper the Eucharist or thanksgiving (like Grace after meat) the Greek and Latin names, Synaxis and Collecta, and even Mass (which is Missus, the name for a course at a meal, preserved in our word Mess) show its social character: and this is the point of St. Paul's teaching about it in I Cor. XI, and also in the document called the Didache...
...advisability of the Freshman class having a dinner has recently been brought up. Such a move would, it seems to me, be an excellent thing. In the case of the upper classes, a yearly dinner has almost invariably served to bring out class spirit and class sympathy and to bind the members of the class closer together. In these days of very large classes, it is growing more and more difficult to rouse real class spirit and class enthusiasm, and everything which tends to bring out class spirit should be done. One of the best ways has proved...
...elective course with, credit. Much would naturally depend on their administration, but we believe that any one of these systems could be carried on her with good results. Between a compulsory and an elective system, we should favor the compulsory; since, as the aim is not to bind everybody down to a single form of physical culture but to give credit for healthful exercise in a variety of forms and merely make sure that a man gets such exercise, a compulsory course would prove as truly elective as an optional, and more generally beneficial...
...understood at the outset that we do not share in the extravagant pretensions popularly set up for arbitration. We do not contend that a permanent court will extinguish the war power. We recognize that international arbitration is suited to a limited class of cases. No nation should or can bind itself to submit to arbitration its own existence or territorial integrity or questions of internal policy involved in insurrection or civil...