Word: christian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time in the history of our country has more attention been given to the subject of physical training than is given to it at the present day. Schools, colleges and Christian Associations are building costly gymnasium, while athletic clubs are forming in many of our towns and cities. With the representatives of our institutions of learning, and with a portion of the intelligent public, the object of the encouragement given to athletics is to counteract the enervating tendency of the times, and to improve the health, strength, and vigor of our youth...
...first place, temptation is no sin, Christ was tempted. If you encourage it, it is sin, but if you repel it, it is not. Secondly, temptation is invaluable, no man can be a man unless he is tempted and that often. Practice makes a man a good Christian. Make temptation a continual means of grace, and you are on the right road. Religion consists in living. Who is going to begin this life? Consider all of you your duty to yourself, your country and to Christ...
About 250 members of the University took advantage of the opportunity offered last evening of hearing Prof. Henry Drummond of Edinburgh University on the subject of Christianity among students, and Holden Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity. After the singing of a hymn, Professor Drummond introduced Dr. Smith of the Scotch delegation, who told of the gradual growth of religion in the Scotch Universities. Several years ago it would have been impossible to hold a religious meeting at Edinburgh University. Now they have services and meetings, especially in the hospitals, where the medical students often go and hold short...
Prof. Drummond then spoke most earnestly on the subject of Christianity. He had not come here to preach, but to help-to try to remove the misconception in men's minds in regard to Christianity. In most American colleges, men don't know much about Christianity. In Scotland they are brought up on religion and see more of the questions which puzzle American students. Christ's yoke is no bondage as many men think. What is a yoke for? A yoke is a wooden collar intended to lighten the ox's burden. So Christ's yoke is put upon...
Entrance on Christianity is like the beginning of a friendship. The life of Christ's followers is the eternal life; it is following a person, not a thing, and it opens up to a man the only possibilities of the entire development of what is in him. A man may know a great deal about Christianity without knowing anything of Christ. Such men are religious men, but not Christians-they live for themselves, instead of living for Christ. No man is a Christian who lives for himself. There is a practical difficulty in being beset by temptation; but there...