Word: godly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speaker took for his text the VI chapter Corinthians, 7th verse. What ever a man's belief may be every one is subject to the law of God and Nature that he must reap just what he sows. If there is any lesson that history teaches us it is this fact. We may deceive ourselves into fancied security, but this law will always find us out. The subject divides itself into four divisions upon which emphasis ought to be put, namely, that everyone must expect to reap what he sows, the same kind of seed and more than he sows...
...duty of an anniversary to test and recognize the relation in which a man or a venerable college stands to this element of the Christhood, to the goodness of God and the greatness of man as making together the atmosphere of life. Think, then, about the history of our college as we hurriedly traced it. Is its true explanation here? Has all this constant enlargement of its life been moving toward the great truths of the goodness of God and the sublime capacity of man. It must be so. Our progress of these two centuries and a half would...
...then, by the way, discovering a bit of truth which had not been known before, now and then, by the way, casting out a bit of error which had been proved untrue, if all the time when she has been seeming to herself to be doing only this, God has been bearing testimony in her to the nearness of his love and to the divineness of manhood as his child, now, at her festival, when she gathers all history up into her consciousness and stands in awe before herself, now is the time for her to boldly recognize...
What does it mean to do that, she asks? Let her remember, let her know that Christ is law as well as truth; Christ is righteousness as well as revelation. The Christhood which is yesterday, to-day and forever is the perpetual utterance of the unchanging ordinance of God, that only through the doing of the right does man come to the knowledge of the true. Let, then, the college which seeks the highest truth in Christ accept the necessity of righteousness as the sole doorway and avenue to it. We miss the great conviction in too much...
...Hebrews: "We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast into the end." There is no break in such a history as ours. To ever larger duty, to ever larger truth, the old college goes forth under the perpetual inspirations of faith in God and faith in man. Those two together make the faith of Christ. May He who has been our Master from the far off beginning, be our Master, ever more and more acknowledged, ever more and more obeyed on even to the distant...