Word: godly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mean what compulsion means now. To-day there is no general sentiment either within or without the college which justifies a compulsory attendance at chapel. Religion has become utterly disassociated from any idea of compulsion. Prayer is held to be a matter between a man and his God, not between a man and the college authorities. Nevertheless, a course in chapel is still necessary for a degree...
...only reason that would have had any weight with those who established these prayers in the beginning - namely, that public prayer is the only seemly way for a student to begin his day, and that in trying to evade it, a man tries to evade his duty to God and to himself. Such a reason seems to all now inadmissable; the good reasons for making prayers compulsory are different now-a-days. It is now the necessity of not keeping away the children of religious parents; the propriety of making the students get up early; the utility of a daily...
...example of these confessions, we find that on "November 4, 1712, A - was publickly admonished in the College Hall, and there confessed his Sinfull Excess, and his enormous profanation of the Holy Name of Almighty God. And he demeaned himself so that the President and Fellows conceived great hopes that he will not be lost...
...should be taught to respect the forms of religion as well as religion itself. A fruitful source of irreligion is mutual denunciation among sects. Nobody knows how to teach morality effectively without religion. In the classroom the teachers can demonstrate that science is creating a very spiritual idea of God, and that there is no real incompatibility between religion and science...
...higher, and finer things of life. That the so-called daily prayers at Harvard fail in this purpose, is too true. They stimulate few or none toward better actions. The failure, however, is merely because they are not prayers. They are an attempt to unite the worship of God with a police regulation. Such a confusion of acts of devotion with affairs of ordinary college discipline must inevitably destroy in us all feelings of sentiment, and reverence. Under the present system we always have a lurking idea that we are worshipping only the Dean and the Faculty. Thus compulsion takes...