Word: church
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...literature. His subject was "Luther as a Writer." The history of the German people in the sixteenth century, said Professor Francke, was wonderfully strange and sad. At the beginning of the century Germany stood at the head of the movement for truth and light; at the end, the Catholic church was there, in the very home of Protestantism, slowly and surely gaining ground. The chief reason for this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet of Worms the heart of the people went with him. Princes, cities, and peasantry all took...
...regeneration of myself can I come to salvation. The Theses were followed in 1520 by the Address on the Improving of Christian Society, In this pamphlet Luther attacked the whole body of canonic law, and preached, as he knew well, nothing less than a complete revolution in the church and in society. Two more pamphlets published in the same year entitled "The Babylonian Captivity," and "The Liberty of the Christian Man" gave proof of Luther's wonderful productivity. In these three works of 1520 were set forth what is truly vital and permanent in Luther's doctrine. But the people...
...Hulme has been elected captain of the University of Pensylvania foot ball team in place of Church, resigned...
...Professor Lawrence one of the college preachers, preached in Trinity church, New Haven, last Sunday...
There will be a concert of the Glee and Banjo Clubs, with readings by Professor J. W. Churchill of Andover, in aid of the Protestant Church at Berlin. The college authorities have tendered the use of Sanders Theatre for the concert which will be given early in January...