Word: church
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Very Rev. Henry Fremantle, D.D., Dean of Ripon, England, gave the first of the William Belden Noble lectures in Phillips Brooks House Wednesday night. Dean Fremantle took as his subject the "Church System," and in his lecture outlined the right relation of the Church to Society...
...necessary to understand in the first place the real meanings of the three terms "the Kingdom of God," "the Church," and "the Church System." Wherever the spirit of God is present and is working superior to other influences, there is the Kingdom of God. It is born in the worship of the individual soul, and works out in active service for society. Every great social movement for good is a part and a manifestation of the Kingdom of God among...
...church is the organization that is not merely swayed by Christ's influence, but the organization that also definitely acknowledges his power and aims deliberately to extend it. In the middle ages through the growth in the power of the clergy the church lost its old apostolic character of a force working with and through men in all their daily work, and came to be regarded as a spiritual hierarchy above and apart from the rest of society. The true Church of Christ is more democratic and practical than this. It is the society not merely of priests and prelates...
...course of lectures, in general, is intended to show the bearing of Christian ordinances on social life and progress. The lecture tonight will deal with the church system itself...
...William Belden Noble Lectures. I. The Church System. The Hon. and Very Rev. W.H. Fremantle, D.D., Dean of Ripon. Brooks House...