Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...began a series of readings in the church and in a comparatively short time he had prepared for Bishop Gilbert a class of eight for confirmation. The work went on so well that a missionary was sent out and the town is now progressing rapidly in a good faith. Another was a young man thirty-one years old who has been doing hard but lonely work in North Alaska, so far away that although he has been elected a Bishop the news of his promotion will not reach him until June...
...natural religion, as it is commonly called and understood by Divines and learned men." The lecture tonight will be delivered by a Roman Catholic, for the first time since the founding of the series. Next year the lecture will be a discussion of the fallacies of the Roman Catholic faith...
...century trusted to reason but later the world was driven to the study of human nature rather than physical. The lecturer went on to show how valuable is doubt. The skeptic is indispensable. The four great ages of doubt have done the world more good than six centuries of faith...
Religion is marked by one characteristic-the determination to penetrate beyond the husks to the kernel of faith. Men have discovered that religion is not primarily a matter of opinion, but a matter of life. The Bible has been called a biography, but it is always life speaking to life. The personalities of the Bible speak from age to age. The greatest word of the Bible is "Because I live, ye shall live also." It is not thought to thought, opinion to opinion, but life that brings religion and keeps it new forever...
...specially noteworthy characteristics are, in addition to its general interest in outer nature: (1) Its belief that the whole order of nature is subject to rigid laws of a mechanical type; (2) Its faith in the power of the human reason to know absolute truth; and (3) Its fondness of mathematical methods in Philosophy...