Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...style of architecture, for good, honest work has been done at all periods in its history. Style changes with every revolution in the political position of nations, in fact it is the expression of this constant development and evolution and has varied with every century in the history of mankind. The different styles of architecture with which we are now familiar have received their impulse and inspiration from the characteristics and peculiarities of the nations which were dominant at the several times of their origin. We have had the Roman, Gothic and Medixval styles and then out of the reformation...
...time since the creation of man have lived up to the higher thought within them. All men are saints who carry lofty purposes into the business of every-day life. There can be no perplexity in regard to the redemption of the heathen or of mankind's living before the coming of Christ. Christ has been a saving power since the creation of the first man, and saves even those who are ignorant of their saviour. A man's salvation does not depend upon his interpretation of the truth of God, but upon his realization of it in the great...
...seems as if it is not religion which is narrow, but only human nature cropping out in this as in everything else. Religion is broad in every way, in the time which it covers,- for it extends over eternity,- in its work, which is the redemption of mankind...
Criticism has tended to strengthen the faith of mankind in God. Behind the Bible stands Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Christ makes the Bible what it has been to man and without him it sinks to the level of the world's literature. Our faith rests not on the silence of the critics, for they are never silent, but on the Christ who is revealed to us, whose word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path...
Christmas time, he said, brings us to a serious realization of Christ's relation to us. The gladness of Christmas is a thoroughly legitimate joy. It commemorates the greatest benefit that has ever been given to mankind-an assurance of salvation. Since this is so, the feeling of God's gift to us ought to bring us thankfulness and joy. Yet we are apt to stand in an unholy fear of God, and to feel that religion, though an admirable thing to die with, is a hindrance to our peace and success in this life. Our failure to gain...