Word: christ
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...after all, this is all summed up simply in imitating Christ. He gave the world his best; he took nothing he did not win; he was brotherly, and he sacrificed himself to Gethsemane's agony and Calvary's cross for men. If college men will strive after the ideal of the social Christ they will learn to live with the world and to serve the world...
...apostle Paul laid down the first principles of Christian belief and organization. He believed each Christian to be the dwelling place of Christ's spirit, and, according to his somewhat mystical conception, the church is the body of Christ, because it is the unity into which are bound all Christian individuals. At no time, however, did he teach the especial sancity of the church as compared with the individual, nor believe that Christ revealed himself more truly through its collective organism than through men as units...
...authority of missionaries and evangelists over their people, and in no sense the diocesan authority of regularly appointed bishops. Authority was given for and was conditional upon superior spirituality alone, and nowhere is there evidence of a clerical hierarchy understood as established by the will of Christ...
...whole doctrine of clerical supremacy, with all it entailed, was an outgrowth of the second and third centuries. The original church did not contain it, and was devoid of all claims of apostolic succession from Christ, of any rigid form of worship or organization, of clerical supremacy and of sacerdotalism...
...daily prayer with God; and third, exercise--in working for others. Greatness in this world consists in service, and we shall gain our lives by giving them up willingly to others. We cannot control our feelings but we can our will. Therefore we can all become Christians by allowing Christ to be our pilot...