Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Tokio, Japan, a picture which is a valuable and exceedingly interesting relic of an old Oriental faith. The picture will probably be hung in one of the rooms at the Divinity School Library. The gift was accompanied by a letter from which the following is quoted: "Allow me to present through you to the library of the Harvard Divinity School, an old temple hanging picture (kakemono) which I have brought from Japan. The picture is very old and the subject depicted is the Buddhist deity, Senju Korannon, here represented as the type of the Almighty Power. I am happy...
This is precisely the mood which we urge the students to cultivate just at this time, for their patience and their faith in the team are soon to be put to a much harder test. Early next week the team will be decided upon, or at least a good idea of its composition will be in the minds of the authorities; work on Soldier's Field will then begin, and the actual campaign for the Springfield game will open in earnest. This work will be done in secret, behind closed gates. With this secret practice, chances for the usual crop...
Professor Peabody said that Harvard had faith in young men that they would respond to a wholesome and rational religion, and did not drive them to the worship of God, but rather trusted in their manliness to aid spontaneously what was best in college life...
These, however, are only the minor difficulties. The great mass of men find themselves sometimes in life and most likely during the college life, to be upset upon the main doctrine they have been taught to believe. They lose their child like faith, and despair of ever regaining it. Then is a dark interlude and yet that interlude ought to come to every man, it is essential to real belief. As the old philosophers put it, we have position, opposition and composition. We doubt the doctrine, we find its contradictions and then we unite all once more and the truth...
...execution of John Hus a violation of good faith on the part of the Empire...