Word: faith
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bishop Vincent of Kansas conducted Vesper Service yesterday afternoon in Appleton Chapel. He took as his text Hebrew xi, 6: "But without faith it is impossible to please...
Macmillan and Co. have in press a volume of "Studies in Judaism," by Mr. S. Shechter, Reader in Rabbinic in the University of Cambridge, which deal in a scholarly manner with many somewhat obscure topics in connection with the Jewish faith...
Christ teaches mankind the broadminded faculty, the freedom from gross materialism, which in art we call imagination, in philosophy idealism, in religion, faith. This is the gift which the world of today especially needs. The age is a cyclops with the keen but narrow vision of its single eye for materialism. In America, where the child nation's body is scarcely grown and its sould but beginning to develop, sordid prosperity, even more than elsewhere, deadens man's higher senses and encourages his skepticism for everything except selfish gain...
...both memory and hope therefore unite in us to raise our manhood. Men like Milton and Lincoln, above all Christ Himself, teach us that love and faith can and must survive from the past, must and can be won from the future, by man's earnest struggling away from selfishness, and towards lofty ideals...
...religion so supplies this necessity of man's being as does Christianity. The consciousness of Christ's presence comes to us at first as an impulse, but as faith grows, His power becomes a deep rooted principle upon which we can lean with confidence...