Word: christ
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unless his own arm had been fractured. A man does not need to soil his won life to help to purify the lives of others. The great power in life belongs not to the man who is tarnished but to the man who is innocent. It is Jesus Christ, the unstained, who is the most powerful figure in the New Testament...
...come to the time when a nation will fight for an oppressed people without the least thought of gain; and will send its ship laden with grain to a starving nation, from whom it has not received, and cannot receive, the least return. All the teachings of Jesus Christ centre about this vital principle of service. The aim of His life was ministering, not being ministered unto...
...principle of common fairness, as well as that of loyalty to Christ, tells us that from those to whom much has been given, much shall be required. It is only selfishness and ignorance which keeps men of our advanced nations from being filled with missionary spirit. It is in ignorance that such statements are urged against missionary enterprises as "it takes a dollar to send a dollar to mission fields." For the truth is that the margin of expense for getting money employed in mission fields is only four per cent; and that a hundred dollars given here, on account...
...with one talent, in Christ's parable, was perhaps devout enough in thought, but he did nothing; if he had any religion he kept it to himself, and made it useless. Full and complete religion is the realization that one has his mission of work to do for God, and the determination to do it earnestly, hopefully and with consecrated spirit...
...funeral services of the late Professor James Bradstreet Greenough were held yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel. The Episcopal Church ritual was read by Rev. C. W. Duffield, assisted by Rev. Prescott Evarts of Christ Church, Cambridge. During the service were sung "God of the Living" and the Latin hymn for the University, "Deus Omnium Creator," written by Professor Greenough...