Word: creeds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot addressed the New England Country Church Association last evening in Tremont Temple on the problem of restoring to their former position of dignity and influence the rural churches of New England. Differences in creed have caused an increase in the number of churches, until none now hold a position of influence or are able to provide comfortable circumstances for their pastors. The problem of giving an influential position to a minister is largely analogous to doing the same for a teacher, which has been accomplished to a great extent by state support. This, however, is impossible...
Again in religion the same decay is apparent. The light is gradually dawning upon us by the spread of learning and the growth of individual criticism. The light is gradually dawning upon us by the spread of learning and the growth of individual criticism. The truth is gradually replacing creed and dogma, and we are no longer bound by the letters of a back. Christ, whether regarded as divine, or human, or mythical, nevertheless stands revealed to us as a great example to be followed through all generations. He has left his impression upon us, an undying impression which ever...
...concluding, Mr. Riis urged that college men should aid in this movement to uplift the masses in our large cities. It should be an essential part of the creed of all people, he said, that we are our 'brothers' keepers and are responsible for their lives and deeds, especially when we are cognizant of their need for help...
Society cannot prescribe to men of ability the rewards they shall receive for competence, but must accept the terms imposed by the men themselves. This overthrows a cardinal point in the socialistic creed, which the socialist attempt to argue around...
...meanings of the incarnation which as the course of religious thinking in the West has frequently shown, may either be full of the warmth of reality; or narrow and exclusive with repellant technicalities. To wrangle with hair-splitting technicalities over the correctness and orthodoxy of such and such a creed, or to endeavor to interpret great and sacred mysteries in such a manner as to favor individual sects or religious is merely to pervert the fundamental truth and make it so much the harder to grasp...