Word: christian
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...CHRISTIAN BRETHREN...
...mass of preachers would they but be a little less ready to tread the way their fathers trod. This last remark brings us to what we more especially desire to speak of and that is the pictures of heaven with which many sermons are crammed full. Now, in all Christian charity, granting that the preacher does not crib so freely from Revelation and the Psalms for the purpose of saving himself mental labor, what does the preacher gain by such a picture? For who indeed ever sits down in his study - and few men can be their real selves there...
...Tripod gives us the surprising information that the Northwestern University will soon be the "richest on the globe," but growls that "it does not spend a cent for the support of its paper." Perhaps this is owing to the fact that the "Faculty and Christian students" are indulging in a religious revival, usually an expensive excitement. "The watchword is the NORTHWESTERN for God and His Christ." We now find the answer to that much-vexed question, Why does not God kill the Devil? Of course, he left him to be killed by the Northwestern University. Now, indeed...
...then, What is it to give up sentiment? Religion, held by some writers to be of first importance, will lose much of its hold on human nature. The Mahometan and the Puritan, it is true, would be little affected, but those large portions of what is known as the Christian world, who build much upon ritual and the reverence due to antiquity, will suffer grievously, - a fact which deserves to be considered by all sentiment-destroyers. We must lose, too, or rather throw away, as useless and not money-making, that large part of history which teaches us so little...
Besides this system of communale schools, there are other powerful schools which exercise a very general influence. These are directed by priests and sisters of charity, and are called Christian, as if the others were not. I leave you to judge what instruction or notion of education men can give who are the avowed enemies of the modern spirit of progress, that spirit which has taken for its motto, liberty, enlightenment, progress. If I have in any degree been successful in my endeavors, you should now have a clear idea of the state of public instruction in France...