Word: israel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American people has thoroughly organized popular politics, and the English people society. The Hebrews in like manner organized their religion. Any division of the history of this organization into periods must be understood as only roughly correct. A twofold classification seems however justified by the fact that in Israel, as elsewhere, theology grew up in advance of anthropology. The books of the Old Testament written before and during the exile treat mainly of God; the later books aim to define and explain the position of man in the world...
...choir sang the antheins: Q come ye servants of the Lord.- Tye; Behold, He that keepeth Israel.- H. S. Cutler; Give ear, O Lord,- Patterson...
What marked Hebrew from other history was first, Israel's divine guidance, and second, the strange discrepancies, most noticeable in the absence of great warriors, of commerce, art, and philosophy, and of any intercourse between Israel and the other nations. On the other hand the Hebrews had the consciousness of a high mission and were pre-eminent in religion. They originated the belief of monotheism and all their great men were religious prophets and teachers. Without Hebrew history we should not have Christianity...
...Phillips Brooks preached an eloquent sermon last evening from Exodus 14; 30. "And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore." He said that we all had an Egyptian-some passion of the mind or body and that we should all endeavor to get rid of it and leave it dead behind us. Many would say that they had not the power nor the strength to destroy the ruling vice. The speaker then said that nothing was apparently more significant and really more insignificant than men's knowledge of themselves. If men would only try, they could do many things...
...under the auspices of the Harvard Classical Club, on "Greek Religion and Apollo." The lecturer said in brief that by the aid of excavations we are approaching a just appreciation of the Greek religion,-a religion which has supplied later religions with almost as much as the religion of Israel has. While Israel has given Christianity the idea of an all powerful and omniscient god-head, the Greek religion has contributed divine love, grace and purity. Mercy is the predominating quality of all Greek gods and goddesses, of Apollo, Aesculpius, Dionysus, and Demeter. The religion is polytheistic, but its polytheism...