Word: christs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spoke of Christ as a hero and model, ana said in part: Nearly all men are compelled to admire some great character which they recognize as nobler than they. They are bound to respect this feeling for otherwise they cannot regard themselves except as small and loathesome in a certain...
Many of the great characters of history have touched us as noble types of manhood; but there is only one man who really fulfills this need of a hero. He is Jesus Christ. The gentle Buddha, the boasted hero of Asia, had no way of leading his followers except by example. He could arouse no feeling or thought in them; for that they had to rely on themselves. Confucius, the great Chinese agnostic, aroused no religious reverence among his people. The Chinese may lead moral lives, and yet remain atheists; they are mere worshippers of ancestors...
...Christ came as the witness of the truth, and His was the life of noble selfsacrifice. He trampled sin to death without deigning to look down on it and yet His authority was always gently asserted to His followers, although their plodding stupidity must have been a continual trial to Him. If we but know Christ for what He is we can not help but acknowledge Him in our hearts. We cannot help but recognize His fortitude and courage in saying "Follow Me." No even death could thwart His purpose. The highest place left for a man today is behind...
...hold away from religion is because it perplexes them. As we know Christianity, it comes to us in a most perplexing form, presenting many doubts and a long and complicated history. We doubt, not because it violates our ideas but because it goes beyond them. In the same way, Christ was doubted, even by his disciples, when he spoke in parables; but when he spoke clearly, he was generally believed...
...claim of the Catholic Church to absolute authority on questions of religion and morals can not be allowed, nor the doctrine of infallibility ever accepted. Even if the Catholic Church was right in the controversy concerning the meaning of the rock on which Christ founded his church, its claims to absolute authority and infallibility could not rest without being scouted. The impotency and falsity of the Catholic Church's policy are manifest. In so many ages it ought to have brought men to an earlier knowledge of learning and opened the way to the new discoveries in science. Instead...