Word: gods
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...thirteenth Vesper Service of the year will be held in Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 5 o'clock and will be conducted by Rev. Professor E. C. Moore. The following musical program will be rendered: "All Things come to Thee," Clemens; "God that madest Earth and Heaven," Naylor; "O Savior of the World," Buck...
...religions. Their belief in a future life is gloomy. They consider the soul as without any communion with the beauty of nature. But there is a brighter side to these eastern cults. The long struggle for monotheism is still continuing. In some Hindu sects today one supreme, all-righteous god is conceived, and their rule of life is to be guided by righteousness, love, and justice. Throughout the Orient there is almost a yearning for Christianity, and its essence is being assimilated. To illustrate this Dr. Hall read several Mohammedan and Brahmanic prayers which are almost the same as some...
...nations of the world that opens a wider scope to the soul. He showed the essential difference between the East and West. The West is governed by the great desire to "do." The philosophy of energy is instinctive. As Matthew Arnold says, "Worship of machinery supplants reverence for God. The East, on the other hand, is mastered by the conviction of the unreality of the world. All things, all persons, are but shadows to the oriental mind. An atmosphere of mystery enshrouds the universe. The Western man seeks the truth outside himself, through researches of science. The Easterner tries...
...with the evening before, Dr. Hall, in treating "The Larger Meaning of the Incarnation," endeavored to interpret the mental attitude of Christ, which, in the previous lecture, he had merely defined. By showing first the Saviour's impartial relations to the whole human race, and then his relation to God, the lecturer attempted to throw some light on the profound meaning of the incarnation...
...take His mental attitude toward humanity, said Dr. Hall, it is found to contain more than the disposition of liberality, shared by many of the greater minds; it is the embodiment of principles involving the attitude of God toward the world, the intrinsic value of man considered apart from accidents of environment, the fundamental unity of the human race. These considerations should furnish some suggestions of the meanings of the incarnation which as the course of religious thinking in the West has frequently shown, may either be full of the warmth of reality; or narrow and exclusive with repellant technicalities...