Word: christ
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Oxford movement sixty years ago, that Christianity should study to better the economic and social conditions of great bodies of men, considered as wholes, is growing. All true philanthropy belongs to Christianity, because all movements that stimulate social progress are the working out, whether directly or indirectly, of Christ's spirit in the world...
...church is the organization that is not merely swayed by Christ's influence, but the organization that also definitely acknowledges his power and aims deliberately to extend it. In the middle ages through the growth in the power of the clergy the church lost its old apostolic character of a force working with and through men in all their daily work, and came to be regarded as a spiritual hierarchy above and apart from the rest of society. The true Church of Christ is more democratic and practical than this. It is the society not merely of priests and prelates...
...Ethics for Young People." "Eulogy on Abraham Lincoln." Fichtis Science of Knowledge." "The Gospel of Paul." "The Harvard Divinity School." "Human Nature not Ruined but Incomplete" "Joint Heirs with Christ." "Leonard Woods." "The Natural History of Dogma." "The Ostrich." "Phillips Brooks." "The Poems of Emerson." "Poetry, Comedy and Duty." "The Psychology of the Vedenta and Sankhya Philosophies." "Recent Studies in Buddhism." "The Relation of Jesus to the Present Age." "The Relation of Modern Philosophy to Liberalism." The Science of Thought; a System of Logic." "The Sea." "The Theology of Uniterians." "The Ultimate Facts of Ethics...
...repeat, then, emotion and feeling will outlast argument. The parts of the Bible which have always had the most influence are those which contain passages of great beauty and mystery; and in the teachings of Christ we see the same truth. His power came largely from the fact that He spoke to those about Him in parables; and all the parables of Jesus were full of poetic inspiration...
...Life of Christ...