Word: creed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Religion presents perplexities and must present them as long as it lives. The thinking man can never become perfectly settled in his mind on questions of the interpretation of Scripture, of creed and form. Yet through all these perplexities, which are, after all, side issues, certain fundamental truths stand out in perfect clearness, unobscured by personal feeling. The beautiful relation of Christ to men is one of these truths. The preacher ended with an earnest plea for breadth of view in the great truths and principles which effect all sects and creeds alike...
...TUESDAY.College Conference. Relation of the Creed to Modern Religious Thought. Rev. Phillip S. Moxom. Sever...
Yesterday evening Professor Wright addressed the twentieth College Conference. He began his remarks by speaking of the difference between the Sermon on the Mount and the Nicean Creed, and of the development of religion since the Nicean Creed...
...series of College Conferences was resumed last night with the first of Professor Toy's two lectures on "The Development of the Hebrew Religion." Professor Toy did not attempt to give a complete characterization of the Israelitish creed, but only to speak of the features which distinguished it from the other religions of its time, and stamped it with its peculiar individuality. The Hebrew system of the ology is preeminent in its intense religiousness. All ancient nations were religious, as Paul remarked in the case of the Athenians. But the Israelites pursued the theologic idea with a vigor, a persistency...
Last evening at the rooms of the St. Paul's Episcopal Society in Grays Hall, Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, Boston, delivered an interesting address on the "Creed." At the conclusion of Rev. Mr. Smith's remarks the President asked for the names of all those who, on alternate Sundays, could attend the revival meetings to be held this winter at the Globe Theatre. An unusually small number were present. The next meeting will probably be held early in January...