Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Social Service is perhaps characterized by the word "and." The more there is done, the more there is still to do. Two necessary virtues for the social servant are love and faith--faith in himself and in humanity; but perhaps more necessary than either of these is the virtue of hope. Love and faith will both sometimes fail. Hope, the will to look forward to brighter things, still remains...
...both sorts of problems. The world grows better by small items, not by leaps and bounds, and these small items are furnished by social service work. It is good for the worker and those for whom it is done, and should be done as though worth while and with faith that it will be worth while...
...class of 1886 of Harvard College at this the twenty-fifth anniversary of graduation, offers to the University a gift as a token of the loving respect of the class and as a sign of its abiding faith in the efforts of the officers and teachers of the University in behalf of education, citizenship and character...
When this lectureship was founded there was extraordinary interest, especially among English thinkers, in what was called Natural Religion, by which was meant religion founded, not upon revelation, but upon the world of nature and of man and apprehended, not by faith, but by reason. The arguments based upon the physical world fall into two groups: Causal and Design. The Causal argument concludes in a dilemma, either branch of which is inconceivable. Of the so-called Design argument, that, from adaptations, has been seriously weakened by the theory of evolution and at present only the argument from an ordered system...
...religion or education is not what it teaches but what kind of men it produces, and in the type of character which the Christian Church produces and in the virtues it inculcates are found its greatest strength. All religious systems eventually end in mystery and an act of faith. Purely agnostic or rationalistic systems will not satisfy mankind. The Christian faith with its doctrine of love, if it does not solve the mysteries, leaves us more hopeful, and is more in sympathy with human life, than any other religion...