Word: christs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Course I. "The Life of Christ," meeting Thursday evenings at 7 o'clock, will be led by Dr. A. C. Garrett...
...Peabody first defined the meaning of the word religion. Religion is not mere belief, though it is often so regarded. Neither is religion a feeling of emotion for some particular phase of its manifestation. Religion is rather the "pressing forward toward the mark of our high calling in Christ Jesus our Lord." It is this intention, graven on the heart, that changes a man's life. It is a mistake to call any weak man well-meaning, since, in the higher and broader sense, if a man means well he will do well. A man interested in athletics shows...
...said: The figure of speech is plain and pungent. Salt is savary, purifying, preservative. Christ was not paying compliments to his disciples. He was giving a clear and powerful call to duty. Were they to make their influence felt on earth for good? Men of privilege without power are waste material. Men of enlightenment without influence are the poorest kind of rubbish. Men of intellectual and moral and religious culture who are not active for good in society are not worth what it costs to produce and keep them. They were meant to be the salt of the earth...
Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p. m. The William Belden Noble Lectures. VI. Christ's Mission to the Family. Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., of New York...
...fifth lecture in the William Belden Noble Series was delivered in Appleton Chapel last evening by the Rev. Henry van Dyke, D. D., of New York. Dr. van Dyke's subject was "Christ's Mission to the Inner Man," and the keynote of the lecture was an appeal to discard the dogmatic and superficial view of Christ's life and teaching...