Word: doors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Peabody took as his text, "I am the Door, John, 10:7. There are two kinds of religion which make their appeal to opposite sides of human life, one kind treats of life as at rest, the other kind treats of life as at rest, the other kind treats, of life as in motion said Dr. Peabody. One is the answer to the prayer for peace, the other is the answer to the prayer for power. One is the religion of repose, the other is the religion of action. One is the religion of age, the other of youth. According...
...liberty of the University. The story of life is similar. You do the shut-in task and it opens into the larger opportunity, you face the limited duty and the larger duty discloses itself just beyond. But what is the way of life that opens thus from door to door? It is nothing other than religion, for it is the view which opens through the door of religion that gives a meaning to the world, that sets one in a rational universe...
...spiritual intention and desire, which give to its perplexing incidents their unity and worth. The religious life is like those Egyptian temples which in their outer courts looked through great free vistas to the fertile fields and the deep blue sky; but as the worshipers sought the central shrine, door after door swung open until at last the single life bowed in the central sanctuary where it found...
Such is then the first message of religion to an eager, forward-looking, undiscouraged, modern life--the message of expansion, liberty, spaciousness, hope. The normal healthy life hears the summons to go forward and welcomes the guide who opens the door. What is it to live but to pass from room to room of the great house of experience and to find each successive room more ample and satisfying...
There will be a matinee tomorrow at 2.30 o'clock, and the last evening performance at 8. Tickets, at $1.50 for the floor and $1 for the balcony, may be had at Sever's or at the door an hour before each performance...