Word: christ
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Macmillan Company has recently published a new book by Dr. Francis G. Peabody, entitled "Jesus Christ and the Social Question." Dr. Peabody presents a study of the teachings of Jesus in their relation to men as members of society and to the great social and civic problems of the world. Jesus Christ came not to construct society, but to inspire men to fashion it; his spirit is meant first to quicken men in realization of their mutual responsibility and to work through them the upbuilding of the social structure...
...fearful wreck and destruction of the Spanish fleet off Santiago, but there was more than conquest in the act of the captain of the "Texas" who stopped the cheering of his men because the enemy were dying. In the moral fights of earth, Paul called the disciples of Christ to be "more than conquerors." He called them to conquer temptation and to be more sympathetic and more ready to help because they had succeeded; he called them to suffer and to be more patient and self-renouncing because they had suffered; he called them to forgive and be more ready...
...over the blue waters of Galile, so they echo down through the ages to men today--"launch out into the deep!" For men to taste the fullness of life and its opportunities, to know the serene and awful depths of the ocean of the spirit of God this is Christ's message for the century that has just begun...
...apostle." The paradox in this phrase is only seeming. Men must be obedient servants to God before they can be the friends, the apostles of the master; men must serve God's world and not themselves before they can reach the truest rewards. He that would follow me." Christ said to learn His love and be His Apostle, "Let him take up his cross and follow...
These lectures are based upon the recent discoveries in the Island of Crete by Mr. Arthur Evans, of Oxford, Director of the National Museum. It was in this island that Mr. Evans found the remains of an ancient temple, built 1400 years before Christ, which contained a large number of inscriptions, both in pictorial and linear writing. Up to the present time however no one has been able to translate them. The lecture to night will be of an introductory nature. On Tuesday and Friday nights the lectures will take up this ancient Cretan alphabet and the discoveries at Knossos...