Word: godly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that some other door must remain closed to those who have not acquired such an education. [Applause.] Said a rich man to me not long ago, as we were passing the Club House: "I would give half of my fortune if I were eligible for admission there," but, thank God! there's one thing in New York that money can't buy. And I have no doubt that the existence of such a club has caused many successful men to regret their lack of college advantages who otherwise would not have thought of it and who will guard against...
...Wade College in Cleveland is designed, says the New York Tribune, "for the higher study of the nature of God, and what men know of it, and of the nature of man. Its founder has placed no restriction of sect or of creed upon its teachers. Its object will be to assist, by its library, its lectures, and its other appliances, all persons, of whatever profession or whatever opinion, who want to study any subject regarding man or God, or the relations of man and God with each other. The plans of Wade College do not contemplate any very expensive...
...That the Christian faith may be propagated amongst the Western Indians to the glory of Almighty God" was one of the reasons assigned in the royal charter for founding William and Mary college. There is no record, however, to show that an Indian ever received a degree from that famous institution. Although Roanoke College has been attended by Choctaws for thirteen years, Mr. William Harrison McKinney is the first one to complete the course and receive a degree, Bachelor of Arts. He has the distinction of being the first Indian, of full blood, to graduate at a Virginia college...
...earth evolved is not consistent with the scriptures, for they speak of its being 'void without form.' The natural struggles for existence lead to the survival of the fittest, a most benevolent law, and also in accordance with the Scriptures. Man is so constituted with the faculties that God has given him that he learns by experience. Without order, of what benefit would experience be ? Evolution teaches that the present comes out of the past and goes down to the future. Evolution but shows the agencies by which God's plans are carried out. It is but the evolution...
...abolish chapel, and to the fact that certain men with infidel views go forth from here every year. But these persons so vigorous in their cries of alarm, would say fully as much as the students if they were taught that the only way to make men worship God was to whip them in against their will. If there is any tendency toward infidelity it is owing to this fact, and not to the influence of the great student body. Also it is a matter of necessity in a university of the size of Harvard, where students come from...