Word: faith
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Overseer of the College and for the greater part of that time president of the Board. In character he was one of the last of the Puritans, a typical New England man. Like the Puritans, he was simple minded, devoted to his duty, and of a strong Christian faith. His wit was like a New England winter, bracing and keen, sometimes cutting; his heart like the New England June, soft and beautiful; and his whole character like a New England landscape, rugged and strong. He had all the Puritan's love of controversy and all the Puritan's firm confidence...
...bill has been introduced in the Massachusetts Legislature to establish a university in the City of Boston for the gratuitous instruction of its inhabitants. The bill provides that the university begin work on January 1, 1896; and also that there be no discrimination on account of religious faith in the appointment of professors and instructors...
...pastor of the Unitarian Church, Deerfield, Jan. 28, 1846 and dismissed in April, 1861; was installed pastor of the Unitarian Society of Greenfield, April 22, 1861. Here his principal life work was done. He remained pastor until 1885, and came to be the most widely known clergyman of liberal faith in the Connecticut Valley and Western Massachusetts. He did not confine himself to church work, but assisted in everything that upbuilds good citizenship...
...this belief is often entirely genuine, and is shared by a large proportion of the population, it is necessary to meet these arguments in good faith and to show their fallacy. Professor Hart described the general arguments of the spoilsman and showed how their weakness could be most easily pointed out to the man who has no great knowledge on the subject...
Various elements enter in to form the belief in immortality. The ancient writers thought that the dream supplied the first germ of life to faith, but the duration of this life was limited. Other things were needed to strengthen and establish belief. The most important element which helped to accomplish this was that of feeling; the dread of death, and the yearning for loved dead. Then the element of desire, whether for the individual or for others had wide influence. In its rude form this element was undoubtedly connected with the thought of self. The deep seated longing for after...