Word: christian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...FLAGG.Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D.. will address the St. Paul's Society - and the Harvard Young Men's Christian Association in Lawrence Hall this evening at 6.45. All students are invited...
...Phillips Brooks is to address the St. Paul's Society and the Harvard Young Men's Christian Association in Lawrence Hall, to-morrow evening at 6.45. All students are cordially invited...
...Russell Sturgis, Jr., will address the Harvard Young Men's Christian Association this evening at 6.30. All students are cordially invited...
...Seventy-second Psalm. The long prayer was a petition for unity and peace among all people. After a hymn sung by the congregation, Prof. Harris gave out the text from St. Matthew, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." This was humanitarianism. A comparison of unreligious and Christian humanitarianism would be the subject of the sermon. Humanitarianism not based on religion claimed for itself a higher usefulness than that which was based on religion. For it tolerated no waste in worship, a priesthood and other religious forms; but all its energies were directly bent to the aid and improvement...
...Christianity brought and humanitarianism what without it must be lacking, object, motive and power. The love and aid of our fellow-men was moreover a Christian idea; and however much men outside of the faith may have equalled or surpassed Christians in the development of this principle, still the church had always repented such remissness to what had always been a fundamental part of its doctrine. Religion-less humanitarianism could offer as a motive nothing more than a sense of the wrongs of humanity. Christianity had as its motive the stirring belief - the divinity of each human soul. The power...