Word: christs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...services in Appleton Chapel last evening were conducted by Rev. W. B. King of Christ Church, who took for his text II Peter I, 5, "Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue." It is remarkable how single words often express in their development the history of whole phases of human history. The word "virtue" in the text is a fitting example. The Greek word used by St. Peter had a simple meaning compared with its translation, a meaning parallel to "virtus" from which we get our word. It meant all that is brave and manly, all that is distinctly...
...until after Christ's time that men began to enquire whether this masculine quality of bravery was all that a man ought to possess. As they began to enquire, they began to improve, and so the meaning of the word developed, until it has come to include not merely bravery, but all the distinctly moral virtues, which one must have today if he would be a true...
Thus in its true sense virtue means more today than it did before the days of Christ, and it is because we have the example of Christ, who combined in himself all the qualities that make up virtue, that we have this higher conception...
REVEREND W. B. KING, who was called recently to the rectorship of Christ Church will preach in Appleton Chapel tomorrow night. This is the first opportunity we have had to hear him speak to us as Harvard students, and we hope he may have a large attendance. Mr. King is a man of strong personality, a clear thinker and an able speaker. He has in many ways shown a lively interest in Harvard and a desire to become better acquainted with the men here, in order that his influence may be broader and more effective. If he is but given...
...apostle chosen to fill the place of Judas. In the study of Mathias we have almost nothing to guide us, we know only that it was he whom God chose to be his apostle. This alone shows that he must have been a man who had been with Christ and had known him, who was full of religious zeal and who was ready to sacrifice himself. Zeal and self sacrifice are the two chief characteristics of the apostles, and if we would live like them we must be zealous in religion and we must learn to sacrifice ourselves. There...