Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Christianity is offensive to some because it possesses obscurities. Those familiar with other branches of life cannot understand it. Education increases this feeling of dislike because modern thought and education are characterized by a love of precision which renders many all the more impatient at the mystery which attends the church. As a result, several practical, but none the less wrong views of religion are taken. Some dismiss religion entirely as of no importance. Its incoherence condemns it in their sight. These are mostly scientists, literary men, and the like. Their scope is small: their view of life is mistaken...
...Modern Geometry," Assistant Professor F. S. Woods, on Mondays and Thursdays, in room 21, Rogers, beginning...
Last evening in Appleton Chapel the Reverend Brooke Herford, D. D., delivered the Dudleian lecture the third in the series of four lectures prescribed by the will of Judge Dudley in 1750. Dr. Herford's subject was "The answer of modern Liberalism to the claims of the Roman Catholic Church...
Since Dudley's time a great change has come about. Modern liberalism does not desire to molest the Catholics, it wishes to let them have every chance. Not long ago a Catholic delivered one of the Dudleian lectures, a fact that shows the liberality of the present American feeling toward Catholics. The Catholic Church occupies a very important public position. No party, no statesman leaves it out of account. It has a tremendous power. It claims to be the direct organ of God, and, for that reason, absolute and infallible. These great and unique claims can not be passed over...
Dudleian Lecture. The Answer of Modern Liberalism to the claims of the Roman Catholic Church. Rev. Brooke Herford, D. D. Appleton Chapel...