Word: christ
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...verse of the number aside from "The Jester" certainly belies the title of the latter. It is all very serious, not to say solemn. In "The Modern World," Mr. Wheelock dreams of a day "when Socialism, like another Christ, shall shatter the old world," and in an "Epilogue" his spirit reels, "Drunk with a defiance stronger than the tyranny of death!" In Mr. Miller's "The Aged Poet's Soliloquy" a bard of seventy-five long years grieves that men shall never know the richer veins of gold that lay below the inmost marvel of his poet's heart...
...possibilities. Many a man of brilliant parts has made little of himself simply because he was never obliged to put forth all his powers. A man of means frequently fails, just because of that fact, to become a means for the highest ends. Occasionally crises come in which the Christ appears bearing the sword and demanding utter self-renunciation. No one here, almost under the shadow of Memorial Hall, can doubt it. Today, however the demand usually comes in a different form, namely, that a man shall keep his possessions that he may give himself, for there is a vast...
...keep them from hearing and obeying Jesus's present call to loving discipleship, the tragedy of the text will be repeated in their lives and their noblest possibilities will be sacrificed. There can be no nobler ambition than, in the words of John Stuart Mill, "so to live that Christ would approve of one's life." There is no higher type of manhood, there is no better, more useful, more satisfying way of life, there is no greater joy, than to be at one in spirit and purpose with him and with the great company of loyal and loving souls...
...Hall, Phillips Brooks House. Mr. Clayton S. Cooper, who is at the head of the Bible study department of the Young Men's Christian Association, will speak. These meetings, presided over by students, purpose to strengthen and spread among Harvard men a positive religious faith and loyalty to Jesus Christ. All members of the University are cordially invited...
...MORNING PRAYER. Rev. George A. Gordon, D.D., will speak on "Freedom and Christ." Appleton Chapel...