Word: devout
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...religious service most distinguished in Christendom, as I think, and most remarkable for all those qualities of religious service which give distinction to any regular function. It was more fully attended, I suppose, than any regular meeting of men for worship in the world. Nothing could be asked more devout than the manner, and, on the whole, more earnest, than the purpose of the worshippers. The best arrangement that science knows how to make was made for the right rendering of praise. And, for the rest, by the working in two centuries and a half of the great central...
...fear of losing money; the students will not listen; they will not pray; the office of conducting them will go a begging; the singing will be a contrivance; the whole will be an anomaly, a source of ill feeling and disunion," we are constrained to believe that those devout men would have preferred to establish no prayers, to devise some other way of calling the roll, and to leave the students who wished to pray to do so in private. They established prayers that they might pray together; only while they serve this end are prayers worth having. If they...
...ground and brought forth fruit, some a hundred fold." The communication printed in another column in reference to a previous editorial on "religious decadence" at Harvard, as pictured in a prominent New York paper, is surely of the "hundred fold." We fully appreciate the shock which the writer's devout spirit has experienced at our "gross misrepresentation" of the article in question. It has never been the custom for a non-sectarian college newspaper man to read between the lines even in "his excitement." Nor is "his anger" aroused at a statement which bears upon its face its utter falsity...
...observation of the students leads me to believe that there is among them a devout, earnest, Christian spirit and a good degree of profound religious conviction. They are earnest investigators, and the fraternal feeling is admirable. I believe the school, as a whole, I has never been so ably manned as it is to-day, and that it is doing a good work...
...earlier than the twelfth century; and the important particulars in its first constitution were these: First, the separation of philosophy from theology. Aristotle and the awakening intellect of the eleventh century were the main causes of this. Two classes of minds at this time divided the church - the pious, devout belivers (such as St. Bernard), who needed no reasons for their faith, and the polemic speculative divine, (such as Abelard), who wished to make theology rational. Second, the system of conferring degrees, after appropriate trials. These were at first simply a license to teach. Third, the formal organization...