Word: manly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...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...
Then follows the third period in the evolution of the soul. As in the story the blind man was cast out by his friends for his adherence to convictions, so we may perchance become outcasts. But the moments of loneliness thus gained are the moments of illumination. Then come the visions of the soul, and God stands near to us. It is better to be with God in the wilderness than to be with the plaudits of men in the market place...
...church is more agressive than in the East because the problems of the West are less amenable to its influences, owing to the fact that the church is always stronger in older countries. Behind everything, however, must come the impelling and compelling force of Christian character and no man who is to be a friend to his country and to his fellowmen can afford to stand aloof from the activities of the Christian church...
Bishop Mackay-Smith then spoke on "The East." Its problems he said, were much the same as those of the rest of the country, but somewhat harder owing to the fact that here the separation between man and man socially is greater than in other parts of the country, and whatever hinders the approach of one man's heart to another's, tends to retard Christian civilization. A second tendency which adds to the difficulty of problems in the East is the mad rush of city life which is more acute here than in the West. A third problem...
...inconsistent, he was sure now. The century would be the twentieth century, and the place the cities of the English-speaking races; this side the Atlantic or the other. For life at this time and such a place, devoted to Christian service, seems the loftiest ideals for which a man of high ambition may strive. Here people have come to realize better than ever before the grandeur of the call to Christian service, and now come nearer to answering...