Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...universe is governed for good. He did not seek to escape the temptation and the cross, for he felt he lived in an order which was good. Again, one of Christ's principles is that the real test of a man is found in the direction of his moral sympathy. The man who sympathises with the efforts of a moral reformer and who tries to help him on however poorly, receives as great a spiritual reward as the man who may have a larger capacity for doing good. True moral sympathy with charitable aims is necessary; it does...
...powers of the unseen world. With man in an elementary stage of civilization, the reason for this is that he does not want these unseen powers to be hostile to him. But if the man is to enter successfully into this relationship he must do so on a moral basis. When he does this he makes a transcendent step in advance...
Wherever Christ found religion used against righteousness, his indignation was aroused, for religion must rest on a moral basis. Jesus Christ was in perfect harmony with the unseen powers. He is the type of what man can be when he enters into perfect harmony with...
...first speaker, whose subject was "The South," said that in a century whose greatness lay in its discoveries, the greatest discovery of all was that of the nation itself, not as a mere collection of individuals, but in its national character. Every problem in national life is a moral question and therefore ultimately a religious problem. There can be no anthithesis between politics and religion because the nation is bound to the same Almighty as the individual. The great ideals, social and political, are the Christian ideals, not that others have not had ethical insight, but because Christianity supplies...
...Moral standards, Mr. Fisher said, are among the higher classes almost on a par with those of any Western nation. The mass of people, however, are largely lacking in moral control. Hence the significance of the common soldiers' contact with the Christian Associations. The destruction of feudalism took away with other restraints moral restraint on the masses of people. Japan is thus in as moral as well as political crisis. Its result will depend largely on the West, to which Japan is looking for leadership. In conclusion, the speaker called attention to the opportunity for influencing the destiny of Japan...