Word: creed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...necessary, but perhaps the separation of dormitories might partially effect the same object, especially if more uniform rates of rent were secured. Some one may object that in Germany no such college division exists, and yet men move in cliques of taste and thought and form companionships of creed. But in Germany there are all sorts of societies and bands which answer the purpose equally well...
...which is requisite for the thorough grasping and understanding of the principles and ideas which go to make up our modern Christianity. He commented upon the fact that the tendency of people generally, who are perplexed by doubts as to their religious belief, is to embrace some well defined creed, without, perhaps, a sufficient knowledge of their own minds. The lecture was extremely interesting, and enlisted the closest attention of all present...
President Eliot addressed the Unitarian Club at their meeting Wednesday evening. Speaking of the advantage of publishing non-Unitarian books by the society, he said that the Andover Creed, for instance, published at full length and widely circulated, would help the cause of Unitarianism; also the Thirty-nine Articles and the Athanasian Creed, or one of Jonathan Edwards' sermons on the delights of the blest in looking over the parapets and viewing the tortures of those in hell, for instance. Regarding the subject of religion and politics, he said that the two are in this country indissolubly associated; that...
...bonds of denominationalism have been growing visibly weaker throughout the Protestant world, and it no longer seems impossible that young men should study theology, as they do metaphysics, political economy, or zoology, without having committed themselves in advance to any theory, creed or set of opinions on controverted points. Until that happy day comes, it is hardly to be hoped that the clerical profession can recover from the depressed condition into which it has fallen...
...which is, however, too long to quote. "Carl" has also written some very clever verses, but we can almost hear the crank squeak in some of his effusions. However, a tolerant kindness should be shown towards an editor of a fortnightly paper. The Argo has very well formulated its creed in the following triolet, which is only one of thousands...