Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hopes of the individual, or in the observation of others. It seems as if the last supposition must be the better. Our expectations, fears and hopes about death centre first around others; those who by ties of affection are near to us. So we may safely assume that the faith of the ancients was first formed on objective rather than subjective grounds...
...Caesar. Marcus Aurelius was a more cautious stoic, never directly offering any view upon immortality. The influence which these men held upon Roman thought was very great. The conflicting tendencies of the religion of the second century were mentioned. The hopeless cynicism of Pliny was contrasted with the faith of Vergil, who had a deep consciousness of the ethical demand for retribution...
...that has just closed as the result of occurences upon the football field, which all lovers of true college sport must deeply regret and it would seem to be most ill advised under these circumstances to sanction by acquiesence the making of public charges which directly impeach the good faith of college men, or if the charges are to be preferred, to select the columns of newspapers as the place to exhibit them. It is therefore the hope of the committee that you will take immediate action upon this communication...
...chief difficulty which confronts us in determining the doctrine of the Ancient Greeks on immortality is that of collecting evidence. In the first place the Greeks had no distinctive national faith, and there was a tendency of the cults to split up, in the absence of any single sanctuary, or great priestly order. Then there was no cultus-literature, though materials out of which canonical collections might have grown were numerous. Lastly the Greek religion was composed of various elements, and by writers of that time the doctrine of immortality was ascribed to foreign influences...
...conclusion, we welcome criticism and shall always be glad to give a reason for the faith that is in us. We do not like a certain kind of Sunday-School reading any better than Tom Bailey did, but we shall always welcome stories about persons who are all good and as they ought to be, when the stories are also good literature...