Word: faith
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Moxom conducted the Vesper Service in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon, and took for the subject of his remarks, "Faith...
...could hardly study Christ's life, he said, without being impressed with the importance which he placed in belief in God. What was meant by faith in God? Dr. Martineau said that it was hard for a man to avoid belief in God honestly, but that it was also hard to hold faith worthily. The sense of God was the greatest power of which man is possessed; faith was the appropriation and possession...
...Faith was a very simple thing, yet like life, though simple was very complex. We should distinguish between faith and its outward aspects as well as between the different kinds of faith. There was the faith that could see God in Hebrew history but could not see Him in American history. Then there was the anticipatory faith which also lacked connection with the life of the present. Such faith which removed God from the duties, the struggles, the passions of every day was sure to breed unbelief...
...communications. One represents the opinion of graduates whose interest in the success of our University crew is vital and unquestioned. The other is the view of an equally sincere undergraduate who represents an honest condition of opinion. Our graduates urge upon us the necessity of unity and of implicit faith in Mr. Watson's management. They say that without these two things we are indeed wrecked so far as athletics go. The communication from "Ninety-six" is distinctly in the same spirit but instead of urging upon the University at large abstract unity and confidence, it points out a specific...
...sometimes congratulate ourselves that we live in better times than the Puritans, and we think that their rugged dutiful lives were much harder than was necessary. We live in luxury, sometimes we sneer at duty, and unfortunately there is not among us a great deal of simple and strong faith in God Many social evils of today we can trace to the lives of luxury led by some and to the carelessness of duty in others. If we are inclined to smile at the stern religion of the Puritans let us remember that on the firm rock of their faith...