Word: faith
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Christianity brought and humanitarianism what without it must be lacking, object, motive and power. The love and aid of our fellow-men was moreover a Christian idea; and however much men outside of the faith may have equalled or surpassed Christians in the development of this principle, still the church had always repented such remissness to what had always been a fundamental part of its doctrine. Religion-less humanitarianism could offer as a motive nothing more than a sense of the wrongs of humanity. Christianity had as its motive the stirring belief - the divinity of each human soul. The power...
Those who have in charge the lighting of the yard, with a childlike and beautiful faith that the moon would shine brightly through the heavy clouds that covered the sky last evening, did not light the yard lamps and the unfortunates who happened to venture out were left to stumble blindly through the mud and slush. "Economy is the road to wealth...
...challenge in genuine faith Messrs. Sam Jones and Sam Small to a discussion on the tenets of the God of nature and nature's God, place and time selected by the two personages; admission $1, to be divided between the three speakers after all the expenses are paid. Please to answer...
...where rising American Hellenists could enjoy the same advantages as were afforded to their co-workers from Germany, France and England. The practical man would have flouted the scheme as chimerical. But, four years since, a few professors from leading colleges, full of an old-fashioned quality know as faith, met and devised a plan. Each was to appeal to his own constituency for an annual subscription toward the necessary expenses. The school was founded. At the present moment it has the active assistance of no less than sixteen colleges. It owns a fine site on Mt. Lycabettus, presented...
...Academy of Music never before sheltered under its roof From that performance and subscriptions since received, a few thousands are already in the treasury of the permanent fund. The colleges appeal for final success to the wider circle of their friends in the same spirit of faith which of itself, and in results already splendid. is a sufficient guarantee for the worth and permanence of the School at Athens...