Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday evening in Appleton Chapel, W. E. Huntington, D. D., of Boston University, preached an able sermon on Christian Life. His text was taken from Ephesians, 4th chapter, 13th verse. "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ...
...Huntington said: The finest scholars, after taking a few steps in the course of their researches, always find themselves confronted by an impassible wall. They reach the end of human knowledge and feel the littleness of it. In such cases it is necessary to look higher, to have faith in the infinite wisdom...
Harvard College has always recognized the importance of imparting Christian instruction in connection with its other work. No matter how able, how intellectual and how well trained a man may be, he is greatly lacking unless he has Christian faith. In spite of the false standards of the world the true criterion of manliness of character is to be found in the Bible in the character of the manhest man that ever lived...
...idealism appeared, however, in the second part of the discussion, when it was pointed out that one who still holds to the reality of a world external, not only to our own ideas, but to the ideas of any mind. must needs declare this wholly unideal world of his faith to be, as Herbert Spencer says, utterly Unknowable. In view of this fact, our argument at this point reaches an Alternative that is to be strennously insisted upon, namely: Either the world must be interpreted in idealistic terms, or else it must be regarded as Unknowable. This second division...
...saving Zahara from death by drowning which bridges over the social gulf between them. All is well except that Lazarus refuses to deny the Nasarene, and for their devotion Christ finally brings about the marriage. It is a story much more fit for the middle ages than for the faith of modern times. The personality of Christ is sharply but reverently drawn...