Word: christs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...light of these two inscriptions let us gather together elements which inhere in the foundation and history of Harvard and see how they appeal to our sense of duty and privilege. Dedicated to Christ and the Church this their foundation...
...Christian religion is at the basis of our civil as well as educational institutions - Christ and His church are necessarily and essentially the patrons of culture, the inspirers of education and the founders of colleges. There have been times when the church has been recreant to her trust. But history has shown that in the long run and considering the contemporary conditions she has been faithful. The past has shown that with religion at the basis of our civilization, culture will be sustained, sound learning encouraged and character upbuilt. But we have had no assuring evidence from history or from...
...Possibly this sounds commonplace and conventionally sermonic. But it is a commonplace which occasionally needs repetition, for one hears now and again from men whose whole lineage is full of Christian saints and whose character is saturated with the Christian prayers, hopes and theologies of their fathers, that Christ and His Church, having done their work, must now give way to the ascendancy of culture and reason and ethics. To repeat the words of James Russell Lowell, they are 'degenerate sons of heroic ancestors, who, having been trained in a society educated in schools, the foundations of which were laid...
...Granted, however, that such men are not representative, but rather the results of an over-ripe culture, there are many men of education, true, high-minded and of Christian ideals, who believe that Christ and His church are at the basis of our civilization, who sympathize with Christian truth, who feel that ideally the church is the stronghold of the highest types of character, but who do not practically turn hand, voice or life to the sustaining of the Christian church of today...
...right; but I know of no more ignorant critic than a busy man who gets his theology from the newspapers and reviews his Christian ethics from the reading of ecclesiastical controversies, and his knowledge of the work from emotional exhorters, and who never goes to the original sources of Christ and the church itself...