Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then briefly on the moral side of religion. A man can never get rid of temptation. Kill the temptation or it will kill you. In the first place, temptation is no sin, Christ was tempted. If you encourage it, it is sin, but if you repel it, it is not. Secondly, temptation is invaluable, no man can be a man unless he is tempted and that often. Practice makes a man a good Christian. Make temptation a continual means of grace, and you are on the right road. Religion consists in living. Who is going to begin this life? Consider...
...religious work that is going on to day in Edinburgh, and which the movers are trying to start elsewhere. Three years ago the active work as started by meetings held on Sunday evenings under the directions of students, and the chief object has been the reconciling of intellectual and moral religion and the leading of a religious life in the university. The workers want the aid of those whom Prof. Drummond calls the "spectators," those who with Mr. Huxley are neither for Christianity nor against it, but are extra-Christians. Their aid is needed, and for them Prof. Drummond makes...
...made on leaving college. What should a man do with his latest? Ambition may urge him on. Sut the highest ambition is to serve others and minister to them, and this is what Christianity teaches. The danger comes from the chance that intellectual religion may take the place of moral religion and leave it standing. This cannot be and good come of it. Let the intellectual considerations have their place, and they but add to the man's Christianity by giving him stimulants and aid. But do not let them gain the mastery...
...social system in Cambridge was so rotten that they would never send another son here. After making allowance for exaggeration, there is still much which should make those who are aiding in the perpetuation of "a rotten social system" pause a moment to consider whether they have any right-moral or otherwise-to make Cambridge unfit for young men about to begin their college course. ent men of their standing and fame sacrifice much in a pecuniary...
...wish, therefore, to ask if cases of this more recent kind do not deserve a like punishment at the hands of the authorities. Not that I think such punishment will result in the moral reform of the offender. But is it right that the students in large courses should have to suffer from the unscrupulousness of a few worthless fellows, who are allowed to go about with impunity...