Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...progress of the world is largely due, Bishop Carpenter said, to great personalities, and Jesus Christ was one of these. Unless we remember that he was also a great religious personality, we cannot understand him or appreciate his works. Religion, moreover, is a power in human life so great that no investigation of religious subjects which does not take cognizance of it will ever be satisfactory to a modern audience. We cannot have a religion without a theology, and we cannot estimate the value of our own theology without comparing it with the theologies of others...
...story of the man born blind, in which the next appears, shows, Bishop Carpenter said, the evolution of a human soul. First comes the outside influence, the moment when we see that life is a far more transcendent thing than we have supposed...
...conclusion the Archbishop said that there is one form of human wrong which can only be put right by one set of people, the young men. We know the curse that falls on every land where impurity is rife, and only the young men can grapple with this. Sometimes we read stories of such cowardice, such brutality and callousness, that we seem to stand literally at the gates of hell. But there is one power which even the gates of hell cannot withstand--the power of the Christian church, and the battle is not ours, it is the Lord...
...originally perfect, but degenerated, has been cast aside by scientists, who declare that man is the end, and the one far-off event, toward which nature has been steadily moving--the heir of all the ages. During the past forty years biological research has caused a revolution in human thought--has even changed the mind of man. Those who have lived through the bitter changed of fierce extremes in the war between science and religion compare with sorrow the times gone by, when faith was diversified by doubt, with the present, when doubt is diversified by faith...
...those who grope in the shadow of uncertainty, the analogy between human life and the spectrum of light is comforting. We can see but a small part of the rays; those which give the shades of color, while the rays which come before and after the spectrum are invisible. Thus it is with life--the unknown past, the illuminated present, and the unseen future of human existence should not make us doubt the reality of what we cannot see. Out eyes and ears are finite, and receive no impressions of infinite things. They dupe us, and make us blind...