Word: loved
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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History, then, with its examples, shows us that ordination in New England is and has been safe, scriptural and valid. The duty of our Protestant churches is to cultivate a love for the church of another faith and to realize that while its forms are different, it has its place and does its work...
...that the conditions of life with us are in the main there necessary to the production of a great art. We are learning to look upon the nude form in the way that Greece regarded it, viz: as the highest possible embodiment of a man's conception of and love for ideal beauty, veritably the temple of the spirit. When we learn that to have a beautiful and finely developed form requires moderation in life and subjection to the spiritual. then shall we know that the nude form is as pure as God made...
...rather chanted to the accompaniment of a musical instrument. and together with the peculiar accent and alliteration of the poetry, their reading was made very impressive. Our ancestors were a religious people even when pagans, their literature being as much of religion as of war, the sea, or domestic love...
Influence, though in a way opposed to power in character, often works along similar lines; but its method of work is very different. Influence works quietly, unassumingly and in unexpected places. It is more nearly related to the quality of love than power. Of the two, however, it is the stronger. The church has really very limited power but its influence is tremendous. It does not need power, for its work is done in a very quiet way in the homes of the people...
Both power and influence, then, are working for good. The saints mentioned in the text are the good people, the people who love justice, truth and right. The words of the text are no wild assertion or prediction but are a logical conclusion from the course of events. It is intended that we should all be saints in the sense of the word as used above, and this should constantly be the object of our endeavor...