Word: christ
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spoke Saturday morning at the preliminary trials to select speakers for the Boylston Prizes for elocution, 12 men were retained. Owing to the illness of Dean Briggs and Mr. Hart, the judges were Professor T. N. Carver, Assistant Professor Edward Hale and Rev. Prescott Evarts of Christ Church. The men retained, who will speak at the final trials next Thursday in an order to be determined later by lot, are: J. L. Burns '06, L. Carroll '06, W. H. Davis '05, H. S. Deming '05, R. L. Hale '06, W. O. Hubbard '05, A. S. Murphy '06, P. H. Noyes...
...Union Theological Seminary of New York, has been appointed to deliver the William Belden Noble lectures next year. The lectures, six in number, are to be given in the last week of Marclf and the first and second weeks of April on the general theme of "The Attitude of Christ toward Foreign Races and Religions...
...services in Appleton Chapel last night, Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., h.'90, preached from the text, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus...
...Abbott said that no man can walk in the steps of another and that we cannot do as Christ did, nor is it necessary. We should, however, try to have the spirit and principles that he had and carry them out according to our own time and place. A man can get only a faint reflection of Christ's character, but he must use this small knowledge to mould his own life. Christ was not an ecclesiastic, not a theologian, but a simple lover of men who tried to give them happiness. We must remember that happiness is character, what...
...thought. In accordance with this purpose, the president, J. H. Lathrop '05, was directed to conduct a class for the study of the "Development of the Messianic Idea in the Old Testament" in the light of modern Biblical criticism with a view to the relation of the idea of Christ. Through such study it is purposed to demonstrate the basis of the so-called liberal theology as against the traditional theology. There are many men who, while not able to find themselves in the older systems, are not clear as to the developments and investigations in sacred literature and history...