Word: christian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Meter of Rome will speak to-night at 6.45 in the Christian Association rooms on the work of the Italian bible and Sunday-school mission. All members of the university are invited...
...quiet meditation, stimulates our divine impulses as well as our bodily passions. The age of Cotton Mather would seem cold to us. Wealth, too, brings with it endless good, and though inseparable from luxury, is the sole support of the great philanthropic schemes which are the mark of the Christian Church...
...should be full of reverence for the divine truth, and no self-conceited sceptic or enemy, with a mind open to conviction and a heart large enough for that thankfullness and love, and every Christian virtue. He should, in a word, be ready to take the lessons which the common mother reads to him from all her past life, and give them their own transforming and elevating power with in his soul. - Boston Herald...
...Love thy neighbor as thyself" is not a ruling maxim in the kingdom of exchange. Men say, indeed, that self-interest is king in this domain of business and the Christian law does not apply to the factory and the counting-room. Business is business. This common sentiment of the street takes its rise from Adam Smith and his school, whose false a priori assumption that self-interest is supreme over benevolence dominated economic theories for 100 years and whose bitter fruits we are still reaping, since such doctrine finds congenial soil in the natural heart. Smith and his contemporaries...
...Christian morality protests against such a distribution of land as is permitted in England, where millions of acres are shut up in parks, while hundreds of her poor are hungry and homeless...