Word: creed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cross movement for Armenian relief should appeal to every member of the University. Busied as we are with so many local interests, it must not be said of us that a call like that which comes from Armenia, a call addressed to no party or nationality or creed, but to humanity, can pass without a strong expression of sympathy. The Red Cross in Armenia means the suppression of the mediaeval atrocities that are going on every day and the saving of countless lives. If Harvard men can do anything towards putting it there they are bound...
There never can be one creed wide enough to cause dogmatic unity. Ritual unity demands universal assent to certain rites, but different men demand different rites. The same reason applies to ecclesiastical unity and its impossibility. The various divisions of the church express and satisfy the religious differences of men. The different sects are, however, slowly changing and approaching each other. All denominations are in a sense transient, reflecting as they do the necessities of the social mind and life, and they change with time. The extreme peculiarities are first modified, and thus it is that the sects are drawing...
...Christian Association held its weekly meeting last night in Holden Chapel. C. E. Noyes, Gr., led, and gave a short talk on "Our Christianity." He said that college men are tested more than other men and their Christianity becomes a life instead of a formula and a creed. As they make their Christianity a life, evil becomes inconsistent with that life and thus is more easily kept...
...religious societies of the University. We have many societies, embracing young men of great diversity of religious opinions. While these differences of opinion are great, the men can all work together for charitable purposes. It would be impossible to bring all the members of the University together under one creed. They cannot all agree on the means of salvation. But we all agree in the desire to promote truth and morality and can work together to further the best interests of these virtues. This meeting typifies what we all desire, and are doing our best to promote...
When the Puritans gave up their dictation in religious matters, and these were taken up by the people, the national church began. Its creed is now that of sixty-nine of the seventy millions inhabitants of the United States. Of these the great majority believe that the soul is immortal, and that God, in his love, sent Jesus Christ to save mankind; all unite in firm belief in a God who is a mighty power of law and love to his children; and the creed of the national church, whose head is the American people, is maintained by them...