Word: faith
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the gospel is carried into every part of the world. It rests especially with students, who have had unusual advantages in education, to preach the word of God to a heathen world, and to show by noble lives of self-sacrifice the power and beauty of the Christian faith. The needs of foreign fields are so much greater than those of the home fields that they cannot be spoken of in the same breath. In Christian countries every one has heard the name of God, every one knows what a church is and the opportunities for hearing the word...
...Graduate School is the complement and neccessary outcome of the elective system; and the first movement in the direction of systematic instruction for graduates was made by President Eliot in the very first weeks after his accession to office. The Faculty bear their testimony to the strong and steady faith with which the President has supported the Graduate School from the beginning, through its long years of insignificance and of apparent failure to justify the aspirations with which it was founded; and congratulate him on the result, which now makes that School one of the most important points of relation...
...regulate our path in life. But we are not automatons and must work out our own destiny. In our work as students, in our social life and amusements we often magnify unimportant things and leave unnoticed the more important. It is so in religious life. We often emphasize faith in our religion and neglect works. The most discouraging part of the controversies on church questions is the magnifying of unessential things. If we would observe the true proportion of things as their natural relation suggests instead of following our own hasty impulses and opinions, we should avoid a great deal...
...guide but our reason and in all things we must use this as a test whether or not we can believe in them. We cannot accept what is contrary to our reason. God does not expect us to believe that which contradicts our very guiding power. So a blind faith is worth nothing; we must believe reasonably and intelligently. The doctrine of the Trinity, if it is contrary to our reason, we cannot accept; it is only when it is put reasonably to us that we believe in it. We cannot conceive of three separate persons making one person...
This evening at 8 o'clock in Sever 11, an address will be given under the auspices of the Harvard Religious Union by Swami Vivekanada, a Hindoo monk. The public are invited. Vivekananda is an adberent of the ancient Brahmin faith of India, and was for eight years the disciple of the sage Ram Krishna. He is well qualified, both by his attainments in native learning and by unusual gifts of eloquence, to expound to a western audience the beliefs of his countrymen. His addresses at the World's Parliament of Religions have attracted great attention...