Word: helping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wells Memorial Institute, on Washington St., Boston, for non church-goers. These are of much the same nature as the theatre services held last year at the Columbia Theatre. Men to sing at these services are much needed. All students who would be willing to give this help will please be on hand at 7,30 Sunday evening...
...object shall be to perpetuate the name and influence of Mr. Bolles and to carry on that work in which he was most interested, the help of needy students. Such help shall be given to students of the University on the following conditions...
...these changes are effected by the force of the spirit of Christ. This does not mean the increase of churches alone, for a man may have in him the spirit of Christ without being able to repeat a creed. It means rather the spirit that is bringing help to the poor, deliverance to the captives, and "preaching the acceptable year of the Lord" Let us be thankful that the spirit of Christ is not confined to the church alone, but is in every man who loves his fellow men and is trying to help them to a broader and happier...
...more specific example of the working of the spirit of Christ is given in the great emergency that has come upon us this winter. Never has any country responded so nobly to the cry for help from its poor. The charity is not of the grudging and condescending kind, but comes from an overflowing heart longing to help those whom it regards as equals and brothers. When the letter carriers of Boston give unanimously a whole day's pay to the poor, does not this show the spirit of Christ? Should we ask before answering, "can they say their creeds...
...hoped, we have received several suggestions concerning the Bolles memorial fund which are worthy of attention. Best among them, however, is this: Instead of using the fund for a scholarship, it is proposed that it be added to the beneficiary funds of the University and used to help worthy students without reference to their standing in their college work Scholarships, as the name implies, are given as a reward for excellence in the line of study. A beneficiary fund is much broader than a scholarship because it may be used to help several men and because character and worth alone...