Word: christs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...world we may see that there have been recently and that there still continue works that have brought us to a much better state than was enjoyed by the people of fifty years ago. And all these changes are effected by the force of the spirit of Christ. This does not mean the increase of churches alone, for a man may have in him the spirit of Christ without being able to repeat a creed. It means rather the spirit that is bringing help to the poor, deliverance to the captives, and "preaching the acceptable year of the Lord...
...Donald preached last night on the spirit of Christianity. He took as his text the works with which Christ describes the purpose of his ministry "to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and to preach the acceptable year of the Lord...
...said that the civilization of the present is infinitely better than that of two thousand years ago, and men are willing to grant that this fact is largely due to the teaching of Christ. But people are often in doubt as to whether Christianity can cope with the problems of today. Sometimes it seems as if the world was not growing better,- as if the problems were growing more complicated and the spirit of Christianity could not be the force to meet them. It this were so we should have to grant that the spirit of Christ had been...
...more specific example of the working of the spirit of Christ is given in the great emergency that has come upon us this winter. Never has any country responded so nobly to the cry for help from its poor. The charity is not of the grudging and condescending kind, but comes from an overflowing heart longing to help those whom it regards as equals and brothers. When the letter carriers of Boston give unanimously a whole day's pay to the poor, does not this show the spirit of Christ? Should we ask before answering, "can they say their creeds...
...psalm, full of the elaborate wording and solemn tone of the oriental style. Three immutable "facts" were laid down concerning the "constituents of being;" first, that they were "transitory;" secondly, "miserable;" third, "lacking in the ego." As the doctrine of faith and works may be considered the characteristic of Christ's religion, so knowledge was the basis of Buddha's teaching. The aim of life was to get rid of existence; existence was a simple illusion; therefore knowledge was what was most needed...