Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...both past, present and future in shaping the character and the destinies of this country. If the Foundation fulfils the conception of the founder and of the Commission, it will aid in collecting material which will in the future make possible adequate study of the fulfilment of the great faith of the East in the West from the early decades of the nineteenth century on; and it will be a place where all students of American History will find gathered together for convenient use a great mass of books, pamphlets, newspapers, and manuscript material showing the embodiment of this faith...
...associate professor of Semitic languages and literature at the University of Chicago and is also head of the House of the Disciples. Dr. Willett has written extensively on religious subjects, some of his works being: "The Prophets of Israel," "Basix Truths of the Christian Faith" and "The Ruling Quality...
...verse, I prefer Rollo Britten's "The Little Boy at the Sea Shore," with its suggestion of Blake to the Swinburne Poe-Henley grimness of "Faith Lies Sick." Arthur Wilson's "By a Window" contains one epithet which justifies it. I do not believe that Schofield Thayer's "Amica" exists in his imagination, much less in his experience; she is only a creature of his vocabulary. J. D. Adams's "The Greater Sunlight" conveys to me neither image nor idea nor emotion. The use of the word "lambent" should be forbidden to Monthly poets for the space of one year...
...biographies, essays, translations, and, above all, his work of almost filial piety, the definitive edition of George Herbert. His friends think of his fearlessness of opinion, his idealism and his power of drawing only what is their best from the men and women in whom he has once put faith. Today hundreds of us who have been his pupils, readers and friends gladly make known to him the gratitude and the admiration which for years have been his in our thoughts. G. P. BAKER...
...Palmer said that a personal religion, which each man must work out for himself, as opposed to the corporate religion into which he is born, is the basic necessity of all belief. Some attain it by intuition, others by logical reasoning, but unless the personal element is present, faith will give way to scepticism in a crisis...