Word: christian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discourse was: "Man's business in bringing in the Kingdom of God." Dr. Hale said that when tenderness and gentleness rule in the heart, charity and good deeds are sure to follow. In all our large cities there are many deserts of vice where any young adventurer in Christian work may find plenty to do. The music of the choir was more elaborate than usual. Mr. G. L. Osgood of Boston sang the beautiful solo "Come unto Me," by Coenen, and the choir sang the anthems "I am Alpha and Omega," by Stainer, and "Seek ye the Lord," by Roberts...
There are two hundred and seventy-three Young Men's Christian Associations in the United States, having a membership of about fifteen thousand, of which Harvard contributes a hundred...
...International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations at 60 East 23rd Street, New York, has just issued the Association "Year Book for 1888." This pamphlet of 200 pages contains among other matter the following: A valuable historical paper entitled "The Early Story of the Confederation of the American Associations," by William Chauncy Langdon, D. D., Annual Reports of the Secretaries and Corresponding Members of the International Committee indicating the present condition of the work in all parts of the United States and Canada. Full statistical reports of the American Associations, including the College, Railroad, German, Colored and Indian Departments...
...evening. The Divine Law for human life requires, first, personal purity. "The wisdom from above is first pure." For three or four days the service will follow the special instructions for bodily training. The wisdom from above is next peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated. The instructions for Christian living, the habits of a gentle man follow on those for physical training. Lastly and chiefly, Christian ethics require active work and good fruits. The instructors for the divine order of life are not complete till they tell a man what to do. Dr. Hale said in his sermon that...
...forty years, he said, have witnessed a relapse in religious enthusiasm. Recovery will come from the impact of strong minds on men outside, and of this recovery there are signs. Men, in the past, lost their enthusiasm naturally, for there was a need of material stock in which Christianity could take root. The peculiar enthusiasm of his own generation, the speaker said, was rather political or purely intellectual than religions. Of this, war and the doctrine of evolution were the great causes. But with the coming generation there is to be a change. The problems which will confront them will...