Word: faith
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unconsciously swinging back to the simple faith of the apostles, that Christ's Kingdom is at hand, and the more firmly we realize this fact, the more religious, the more celestial becomes our religion. Christ never intended to prepare men in this life for a future existence; his fondest hope and prayer was to prepare men to live here on earth...
Some people say the church is losing its power, that we are losing our faith. However true that may be, from their standpoint, I venture to say that we are losing that mediaeval habit of dreaming of the celestial opportunities of day-after-tomorrow. Immortality as revealed by our faith, should mean a man's living now, not that he is going to live at some future time. I count it far better to deserve immortality and not to have it than to have it and not deserve...
...religious life finds it natural to express itself in social service, and thus social service is really a part of that life, and a part which vitally concerns the present age. The greatest shame for a period would, be not that its faith was incomplete or unorthodox, but that it failed to recognize the basis for faith which it possessed; and social service is that basis for today. This tendency toward practical affairs opens for the ministry a wider range for self-sacrifice and duty. Our age has its problem plainly before it, and in its solution lies...
These meetings will be open to all members of the University. Their object is to set forth the faith of the Apostolic Church for the benefit of churchmen and all others who are interested...
...Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House at 7.15 o'clock this evening. Dean Hodges of the Episcopal Theological School will conduct this series, which will consist of three conferences on the "Reasonableness and Necessity of Belief in God." The object of the conferences is to set forth the faith of the Apostolic Church for the benefit of churchmen and all others interested. These meetings are open to all members of the University...