Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...power of faith over the lack of it,--that is the vital seed from which, under the strong, sure treatment of Augustus Thomas, springs a drama of race and religion, of prejudice and sacrifice, of hate that would blight and love that can and will save and atone. This drama, the noblest and most intensely provocative of hard thinking that Boston has seen for many days, is called "As a Man Thinks". Into an apparently hopeless turmoil of sin and mental suffering which comes from the faithlessness of a husband and his suspicion of the faithlessness of his wife, into...
...sympathy with the problems of student life rather than for his ability as a scholar; that Bible Study purposes and methods should be vital and social in application rather than historical or critical; that the interest of the faculty in Bible Study work should be recognized; that the faith and ability of the leader should be recognized...
...them, "The Nigger", and "Salvation Nell" have been very marked successes. E. G. Knoblauch '96 has also produced a play in New York. In connection with these it is almost needless to mention the dramas of Percy MacKaye '97, especially "The Scarecrow", produced in 1910, and "The Faith-healer" of William Vaughn Moody...
...formality and from barren freethinking." As representative of American "ethical ideals," James idealized and liberalized the current philosophy of "efficiency"; correcting it by emphasizing "the need of active faith in the unseen and the superhuman...
...little use in trying to reach an ultimate religious unity when we take into consideration the differences of environment, race and character between one man and another, and when all the latest theories show us that of all the different interpretations of the Strictures none can be considered final. Faith, however, is the true basis of religion, for it not only makes us see our opportunities for service but it causes us to make others see. Christ did not come into life to give us an emotional tradition but that we might have life more and more abundantly...