Word: christianizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whether a man's doctrine be high or low, he recognizes in the communion the carrying to its highest point the idea of worship, so that it cannot be confused with mere inward meditation. The Christian declares that God, although the ultimate reality, is so far personal that he can enter into relations with man. The supernatural nature of the events which led to the founding of the Christian Church, the idea of the cross, and of the immortality of the soul, are quite alien to that closed circle contemplated by the materialist philosopher and the more ornamental theory...
...sacramental idea has been so much bound up with the life of the Christian Church that it seems quite unwarrantable to omit it and reserve the other supernatural elements. In this respect, as in the belief in the immortality of the soul, there is no middle path to choose, for Christianity defies all attempts to compromise with any of the humanitarian or ethical codes. A man is either a Christian or a non-Christian in his beliefs...
...Cambridge, will deliver the third of his series of lectures under the William Belden Noble Foundation, on "Civilization at the Cross-Roads," in Fogg Lecture Room this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of tonight's lecture is "The Challenge of the Cross." The final lecture on "The Christian Fact" will be given on Thursday evening...
Professor Bliss Perry of the English Department will speak on "The Religious Value of Great Literature," before the Graduate Schools' Christian Association in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. This is the second of a series of Sunday night meetings to be held during March for all students in the Graduate Schools, to whom a cordial invitation is extended...
GRADUATE SCHOOLS' CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Address by Professor Bliss Perry. Parlor, Phillips Brooks House...