Word: morals
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...world: we must overcome the evil with good, that is to say, by the influence of strong men who are not afraid of being tempted because they can resist temptation. Pure, strong men then may have a great influence. They may really cure sick or feeble souls. The moral strength of the college does not depend on the extermination of evil here. That is not to be hoped for. It depends rather on the number of strong men who can face tempation and resist...
That the idea of a devil has been a patent influence in moral development can not be doubted. In the struggle against sin it has given definiteness to the blows that they were struck against an enemy. But now the evil one is gone although the evil ones remain. In the time to come, people will do well if they fight evil with such vigor as our forefathers fought the devil...
...cause of the advance of Hebrew ideas from the animistic level was the prophetic Yahwism. The Babylonian captivity was the moral victory of prophecy. It had a very beneficial effect on religion, for it separated the people from the accustomed ritual, and increased their spirituality. Thus new influences came to bear upon the Jews at a time when they were best prepared to receive them. Here the conception of Yahweh began to rise. In Ezekiel the rescue of Israel from her troubles is portrayed by the well-known and splendid figure of the resurrection of the bones. This figure...
...view that the Scripture was the word of God, minutely accurate, had vanished from liberal theology. The churches of England were beginning to recognize that though they could not unite upon any common theological ground, they had, however, a strong bond of union and sympathy in the great moral and ethical principles of Christianity...
...unadvised. Modern art where it treats life demands realism and we contend that realism only ceases to be real art when the emotion it excites are such as we afterwards regret as having relaxed our moral fibre. Judging "Kid" in this most serious way we cannot find that any one's imagination would receive injury from its perusal...