Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...before the New England Council of Education; December 9, before the New York Round Table; December 10, in the morning, before the Schoolmasters' Association of New York, and in the evening, under the auspices of the New York Department of Education, at Cooper Union, on "The Characteristic American Faith in Education...
...question in closing, Bishop Carpenter said, is whether we can reach an assurance of faith which fills the needs of our character and our conduct. The desire for firm certitude is not always a wholesome one. If it is the outcome of love of truth it is good, but if it comes from a desire to shirk responsibility it is most ignoble. Men who want every question answered, every doubt cleared, lack the heroism God intended to be in life. In Christ's own time, there were men of this same temperament. He was questioned concerning authority. What...
Religious faith must be based on facts. This is what the scientific man wants. In religious questions we must study all facts, not only the facts of history, but also those which throw light on man's religious nature...
These periods of the soul--the periods of fact, knowledge and faith--are bound, together by duty, a motive higher than pleasure, convenience or ambition; a motive which exacts only sacrifice...
...been no question here of ecclesiastical polity or government, no ritual--none of the things which create religious division. Many people may ask whether religion can remain where these things do not exist. What remains is freedom, the very breath of the University life! But more, "Here abideth faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love." Religion, as the prophet Micah defined it, remains here. "What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God?" Here in the Chapel we cease to watch for the execution...