Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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The 19th century began with a more serious convulsion. In 1805 Henry Ware was chosen, after a long struggle, to the Hollis professorship of divinity. Once more we need not commit ourselves to his theology, nor to that which for many years after, remained the ruling theology of the university...
What meaning shall we see in all of this? No doubt it is possible enough to see no meaning, or to see low meanings in it. Possible enough to see no meaning, to think of it all as a long dynasty of accidents, chance killing chance and taking possession of...
It is the duty of an anniversary to test and recognize the relation in which a man or a venerable college stands to this element of the Christhood, to the goodness of God and the greatness of man as making together the atmosphere of life. Think, then, about the history...
Therefore it is that more than most institutions our university has lived under greater forces and for greater ends than she has habitually acknowledged to herself. Therefore, it is that in her commemorative season, our university is specially bound to look deep into her own life, to look broadly across...
What does it mean to do that, she asks? Let her remember, let her know that Christ is law as well as truth; Christ is righteousness as well as revelation. The Christhood which is yesterday, to-day and forever is the perpetual utterance of the unchanging ordinance of God, that...